The book of sports
Subtitle: containing out-door sports, amusements and recreations, including gymnastics, gardening & carpentering, for boys and girls
By: by William Martin, author of "Fireside Philosophy," "The Parlous Book," "Intellectual Calculator," etc. etc. etc
Edition: Second edition.
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Darton and Company
Published: 1852
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Sports; Juvenile literature; Amusements
Other titles: Book of sports :; Outdoor sports
Notes: "Reviews and literary notices, with the opinions of the London & Provincial Press on the Rev. T. Wilson's popular school Catechisms." follows text.

Publisher's advertising: 35 pages, 2nd count.

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
Table of contents: title: Games with marbles; title: Games for cold weather; title: Dangerous games; title: Gymnastics; title: Cricket; title: Swimming; title: Gardening; title: Carpentering; title: Keeping poultry; title: Bees.