The boy's playbook of science
Subtitle: including the various manipulations and arrangements of chemical and philosophical apparatus required for the successful performance of scientific experiments, in illustration of the elementary branches of chemistry and natural philosophy
By: by John Henry Pepper ... ; illustrated with 470 engravings, chiefly executed from the author's sketches, by H. G. Hine.
Contributors: Hine, Henry George, 1811-1895.; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905.; Leighton, John, 1822-1912.; Savill and Edwards
Edition: New edition.
Publisher: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge
Published: 1862
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
Subjects: Science -- Experiments -- Juvenile literature.; Science -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Other titles: Boy's play-book of science :
Notes: One wood-engraved plate is with signature: "H. G. Hine"  and another is signed: "E. Evans Sc.".  Plates are with captions.

Three wood-engraved illustrations within the text are signed as engraved by Edmund Evans.  One is signed "H. G. HIne".  Others are unsigned.

Many of the same wood-engraved illustrations were also used in the "New Edition" of "The boy's book of science" published [between 1889 and 1892] by George Routledge and Sons and printed by Ballantyne and Hanson.  See McLean O 0479.55.

MASS copy: Bound in lavender bead-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind.  Upper cover blocked in gold with title and illustration similar to those within the text, with signature: "JL" [i.e. John Leighton].  With pastel yellow painted endpapers.  With bookseller's embossed stamp: "T. H. Palmer.  55, Gracechurch St. E. C.  Bookseller & Stationer".  With ownership inscription dated 1861: "T. W. Baggallay  Hastings".  With ownership inscription: "Thomas Weeding Baggalley".  With ink stamp: "Thomas Weeding Weeding.".