Clarke, William: Boy's Own Book ©1829 Munroe and Francis, NY Hardcover, no dj, 316 pages

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Comments: "A complete encyclopedia of all the Diversions, Athletic, Scientific, and Recreative, of Boyhood and Youth".
Note: There seem to be three primary editions of the Boy's Own Book:
a. The Boy's Own Book from 1829 (circa), listed here
b. The Boy's Own Book Extended, 1855, combines the original Boy's Own Book with Parlor Magic and Preston's Book of Gymnastics.
c. The Boy's Own Book New Edition, 1880. A greatly expanded edition of the first edition
Finally, not to be confused with G.A. Hutchinson's Boy's Own Book, which has completely different contents.

Contents (from 1834 edition book):

3 Prelude: introduction

5 Minor Sports
7 Miscellaneous Out-Door Sports
9 Games With Marbles
13 Games With Toys
15 Games With Balls
21 Sports of Agility and Speed
25 Sports With Toys
29 Miscellaneous Sports
43 Archery
51 Cricket
57 Gymnastics
59 Gymnastic Exercises
65 Gymnastic Recreations
75 Swimming

95 Arithmetical Amusements
97 To Tell Any Number Thought Of: four methods
99 To Tell Two or More Numbers Thought Of
100 The Money Game: which hand has which
100 The Game of the Ring: who has the ring and on which finger
101 The Game of the Bag: math magic
102 The Number Nine
104 The Certain Game
104 Magical Century
105 The Cancelled Figure Guessed
105 The Dice Guessed Unseen
106 The Sovereign and the Sage
106 The Horse-Dealers Bargain
106 The Dinner Party
107 Combinations of an Anagram
107 The Basket and the Stones
107 The Arithmetical Mousetrap

109 Optical Amusements: magic lanterns, cameras, etc.

125 Chemical Amusements

139 Draughts or Checkers

149 Legerdemain
152 The Poised Penny: card shot out from under a penny
152 Water Bewitched: water rises in a glass
152 Fire Under Water
153 The Sentinel Egg: balances
153 The Bridge of Knives: puzzle
153 Eatable Candle-Ends
154 The Little Floating Beacon
154 The Rings and Ribbons: rings appear to be strung on a ribbon
154 The Thumb-String: magically threading a string
155 Wine Upon Water: making wine float
155 The Conjuror's Joke: gag trick
155 The Perilous Goblet: turning a glass of water upside down
155 The Enchanted Cock: hypnotizing a chicken
155 To Light a Candle By Smoke
156 THe Wonderful Re-Illumination: candle re-lights
156 To Suspend a Ring by a Burnt Thread
156 The Animated Sixpence: leaps out of a pot
156 The Fascinated Bird: hypnotizing a bird
157 To Lift a Bottle With a Straw: puzzle
157 The Moving Pyramid: moves by itself
157 The Paper Furnace: bullet - not a shell - melts through a paper
157 The Bottle Ejectment: fluids experiment
158 The Balanced Stick: stunt
158 Storm and Calm: oil & water experiment
158 The Travelling Egg: egg moves on it's own
158 The Doubled Coin: optical illusion
159 The Toper's Tripod: balancing stunt
159 The Knotted Thread: knotted end of thread passes through silk
160 The Bottle Imps: small glass figures rise and fall in a bottle of water
160 The Bird In the Box: bird seed changes to bird
160 The Multiplying Mirror: a mirror shows multiple reflections
161 The Bogle Bodkin: a trick knife
161 The Prancing Dragon: a balancing wood figure
162 The Mysterious Bottle: water runs out of holes when uncorked
162 The Half-Crown Upheld: coin sticks to the wall
162 The Bowing Beau: making a wobbling figure
163 The Wonderful Wafers: paddle trick with a table knife
163 The Counter Changed: a magic paper fold
163 The Cut Lace Joined: cut and restored
164 The Wizard's Chariot: experiment in physics
165 The Simple Deception: coin vanish in sepectator's hand
165 Philosophy Cheated: experiment with water and motion followed up with wand clinging to hand
167 The Locked Jaw: a cruel gag
168 The Restored Thread: burnt and restored
168 The Long Pudding: gag
169 The Egg Box: like the ball and vase
169 The Obedient Watch: magnet makes a watch stop or go
170 The Flight of the Ring: borrowed ring appears on selected finger
170 The Demi-Amputation: with faked knife
170 The Mutilated Handkerchief Restored: with confederate
171 The Double Funnel: liquid appears
171 The Fire and Wine Bottle: fire blasts from a wine bottle filled with wine
172 The Globe Box: a variation of the ball and vase
172 The Hatched Bird: real bird appears from egg
173 The Penetrative Shilling: shilling into nest of boxes
173 The Money Box: coin vanishes from a rattle box
174 The Salamander: Professor Sementeni's attempts to mimic Lionetto's fire oven and other fire feats
176 To Melt Two Metallic Mixtures By Friction
176 The Handkerchief Hearth: coal does not burn a handkerchief
177 The Concombustible Thread: using Asbestos
177 Simple Amalgamation and Separation: with mercury
177 Hideous Metamorphosis: chemical gag
177 To Make a Wet Stone Produce Fire: chemical magic
178 The Sub-Aqueous Volcano: chemical mixture burns under water
178 The Chemical Samson: melt iron with fire
178 The Magic Spoon: making a melting spoon
178 Metal Melted on Paper Over a Candle
178 The Wonderful Dye: changes color of materials
178 Metallic Transmutation: iron looks like copper
179 The Faded Rose Restored: with sulphur
179 The Protean Liquid: red liquor changes colors when poured
179 Incombustible Paper
179 The Mimick Conflagration: chemical fire
179 Portraits Visible and Invisible: using French chalk
179 Perpetual Motion: using a chemical mixture
180 The Dancing Egg: using mercury
180 The Egg in the Phial: putting a shelled egg in a milk bottle
180 The Blue Bottle: color changing liquiid
180 The Candle of Ice: experiment for frosty weather
181 To Dip the Hand in Water Without Wetting It
181 To Remove and Afterwards Restore the Color of a Ribbon
181 The Paper Oracle: use for invisible ink
181 The Sibyl's Cave: another application
181 To Separate Oil From Water: experiment
182 To Make a Colorless Liquid Become Blue, Lilac, Peach-Colored and Red Without Touching It
182 The Four Elements: experiment
182 The Mineral Chameleon (Sheele): color changing water
183 Phosphoric Fish, Meteors, &c.: about Phosphorus
184 Phosphoric Wood
185 Phosphoric Plants
185 Phosphoric Oyster Shells
186 To Render Milk Luminous
186 Ignition by Compression
186 The Mask of Fame
186 The Miniature River on Fire
186 Phosphorescent Spar
186 Ignition by Percussion
187 The Phosphoric Steam Bath
187 The Illuminator and Extinguisher
187 To Light a Candle by a Glass of Water
187 Automata: mechanical person and animal illusions
187 - The Chess Player
190 - The Flute Player
191 - The Invisible Girl
192 - The Mahometan Magician
193 - The Canary

195 Tricks With Cards
196 Forcing
196 To Tell a Card Thought Of Blindfolded
197 The Shuffled Seven: magician knows how far down the selection is
197 The Piquet Pack: prediction of a total
197 The Double Dozen: another method to know how far down the selection is
198 The Noted Card Named
198 Gathering of the Clans: four of a kinds arrange themselves
199 The Magic Twelve: magician knows the number of spots on the bottom cards of several piles
199 To Turn a Card Into a Bird
199 To Make a Card Jump Out of the Pack
200 The Confederate Water-Drop: an impromptu shiner
200 The Four Accomplices: finding selection through elimination
200 The Nerve Trick: deck is slapped out of spectator's hand and he holds his selection
201 The Chosen Card Revealed by a Pinch of Snuff
201 The Drawn Card Nailed to the Wall
201 Ups and Downs: an impromptu one-way deck
201 The Card Under the Hat
202 The Turn-Over: a pack is dropped, selection turns over
202 The Regal Alliance: Four Kings assemble in the deck
202 The Odd Score: each spectator drew the same card
202 The Card In The Egg: using a card wand
203 The Painted Face: pack transforms its backs or faces
203 To Convey a Card Into a Cherry-Stone: card prediction found in a nut
204 The Card In The Mirror: making a mirror in which the image of a card may appear
204 The Mouse In The Pack: a live mouse production
205 The Marching Card: a card climbs the wall with aid of a confederate
205 The Buried Heart: changing pip
205 Confederate Signals: two person code
206 The Card In the Pocket-Book: selection is found in performer's pocket

207 Paradoxes and Puzzles
208 Trouble-Wit: paper folds into hats and more
210 The Slighted Lady
211 The Wine Merchant and His Clerk
212 Profit and Loss
212 The Geometrical Money
212 Quaint Query
212 The Sheep-Fold
213 The Impossibility Made Possible
213 The Curious Cross
213 Seven In Two
214 The Partial Reprieve
214 Famous Forty-Five
214 The Wolf, The Goat and the Cabbages
215 The Cherry Cheat
215 The Triple Accommodation
215 The Poor-House Problem
216 Eighteen Words In Twenty-Three Letters
216 The Puzzling Rings
219 The Card Puzzle
220 The Square Hole and Round Stopper
220 The Heart and Ball Puzzle
220 The Scale and Ring Puzzle
221 The Oyster Wager
221 Hodge And His Hay
222 The Squares of Traingles

223 Varieties
223 The Aeolian Harp
224 To Make Fruit and Flowers Grow In Winter
224 To Convet Paper Into Frames for Pictures
224 To Take the Impression of Butterflies on Paper
224 The Deaf Made to Hear
225 The Hydrometer
225 The Awn of Barley Hydrometer
226 Substitute for a Copying Machine
226 To Preserve Roses Till Christmas
226 Magnificent Crystals
227 Crystallization Upon Cinders
227 To Produce Verious Flowers From One Stem
227 Harlequin Inks
227 To Bronze Blaster Busts, &c.
228 To Cut Glass
228 The Eclipse Glass
28 To Calm Agitated Water
229 Engraving on Egg Shells
229 Laughing Gas
229 The Comical Cards
 
231 The Riddler
232 Charades
236 Conundrums
241 Enigmas
246 Rebusses
253 Logogriphs
257 Solutions

263 The Angler: fishing
273 Rabbits: keeping
281 Guinea Pigs: keeping
283 Pigeons: keeping
289 Fencing: sword-fighting