The boy's own toy-maker
Subtitle: a practical illustrated guide to the useful employment of leisure hours : with two hundred engravings
By: by E. Landells ...
Contributors: Leighton, John, 1822-1912.; Hutchings, H. W. (printer); Wertheimer and Co.
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Griffith and Farran, Successors to Newbery and Harris
Published: 1859
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: Toy making -- Juvenile literature.; Amusements -- Juvenile literature.; Paper work -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Other titles: Boy's own toy maker
Notes: Preliminary wood-engraved plate with signature: "Landells".

Includes "Preface" (p. [v]-viii) and "Preface to the Second Edition" (p. viii).

"The favourable manner in which this little work has been noticed by the Press, and the patronage it has already received from the Public has been so great as to call for a second edition within two months of the first publication."--Preface to the Second Edition.

Wood-engraved illustrations and diagrams within the text are unsigned.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [1]-32 at end with imprint: "Wertheimer and Co., Printers.".

St. John, Judith. Osborne collection of early children's books, Vol. 1, p. 221.

MASS copy: Bound in olive green diagonal wave-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind.  Upper cover blocked in gold with title design incorporating small illustrations similar to those within the text.  Design with signature: "JL" [i.e. John Leighton].  With pale pastel yellow glazed endpapers.  With presentation inscription dated 1859.