William Clarke (editor): The Boy's Own Book, a New Edition
Clarke, William (editor): The Boy's Own Book, A New Edition
©1880 Crosby Lockwood and Co., London
Hardcover, no dj, 726 pages
William Clarke: The Boy's Own Book, a New Edition
Image from Bodleian Library

Comments: A greatly expanded edition of the Boy's Own Book.
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 book):

iii Prelude

1 Minor Sports
3 Games With Marbles
11 Games With Tops
14 Games With Balls
21 The Indian Ball Game
24 Sports of Agility and Speed
36 Miscellaneous Out-Door Sprts
41 In-Door Sports
46 Sports With Toys

59 Drawing Room Games
59 Minor Games
67 Shadow Pantomimes
70 Bouts Rimes
73 Definitions
75 Forfeits
77 Acting Charades
88 Acting Proverbs
95 Tableaux Vivants

101 Athletic Sports
101 Cricket
127 Golf
130 Shinty
131 Football
138 Croquet
145 Troco
146 Hockey
147 Rackets and Fives
149 Tennis and Pallone
151 Lawn Tennis
156 Badminton
159 Base Ball
165 La Crosse
170 Bowls, Quoits, etc
177 Fencing
195 Broadsword and Single-stick
201 Archery
209 Riding
223 Driving
232 Bicycling
242 Gymnastics
253 Dumb Bells and Indian Clubs
258 Boxing and Wrestling

263 Aquatic Sports
263 Angling
266 Sea Fishing
283 Rowing
304 Canoeing
307 Sailing
319 Skating
325 In-Door Skating
326 Sliding
327 Curling

329 The Naturalist
329 Singing Birds
353 Talking Birds
361 Domestic Fowls
370 Turkeys
372 Guinea Fowl
373 Geese
374 Ducks
377 Pigeons
392 Rabbits
402 Guinea Pigs
404 Dogs
413 Cats
414 Squirrels
416 White Mice
418 Silkworms
422 Bees
428 Gold and Silver Fish
430 Aquarium
434 Gardening
447 In-door Gardening

451 Scientific Recreations
451 Arithmetical Amusements
465 Magnetism
474 Electricity
481 Galvanism and Electro-Magnetism
494 Chemistry
511 Fireworks
519 Aerostatic Amusements
523 Acoustics and Pneumatics
528 Optics
547 The Microscope
555 The Telescope ,
557 Photography
575 The Stereoscope
579 Miscellanea

583 Games of Skill
583 Chess
607 Draughts
618 Backgammon
622 Dominoes
625 Solitaire
627 Fox and Geese
627 Agon, or the Queen's Guards
630 Minor Games
632 Bagatelle
635 Billiards

647 Legerdemain

649 Simple Deceptions and Easy Tricks
649 The Almond Trick
649 The Glass of Wine Under the Hat
650 The Juggler's Desser
650 The Three Knives
650 Out of the Common
651 The Bottle Conjuror
651 The Toper's Tripod
651 Easily Tired
651 The Nondescript
652 The Mysterious Bottle
652 The Bottle Erectment
652 The Magic Circle
652 Advantageous Wager
652 To Invert a Glass of Water Without Spilling It
652 A Fast Prisoner
653 To Lift a Bottle With a Straw
653 The Knotted Thread
653 The Tape Trick
654 The Thumb-String
654 The Conjuror's Joke
654 The Wonderful Wafers
655 Philosophy Created
655 The Knotted Handkerchief

657 Tricks With Money
657 Palming a Coin
658 The Sixpenny Trick
658 The Curious Cross
658 The Self-Supported Coin
658 The Confederate Shilling
659 The Animated Sixpence
659 One Sixpence Rubbed Into Two
659 The Carefully Wrapped Sixpence
659 To Draw a Shilling Out of a Handkerchief
660 The Penetrative Coin
660 The Impossibility Made Possible
660 The Money Box
661 The Marked Half-Crown
661 The Convertible Coins
662 The Counter Changes
662 The Poised Penny

663 Tricks With Cards
664 Shuffling
664 To Make the Pass
664 Forcing
665 The Assorted Pack of Cards
666 To Tell Ever Card In The Pack
666 To Distinguish Cards By Their Smell
667 To Pick Out Any Card Named From the Pack
667 A Gathering of the Clans
667 Divination By Cards
668 The Ten Pairs of Cards Distinguished
668 To Tell the Number of Pips on Any Two Cards Drawn
669 To Tell The Number of Pips On Any Three Cards
669 The Nerve Trick
670 The Knaves and the Constable
670 The Turn-Over Feat
670 To Tell Card Thought Of Blindfold
671 To Predict the Position of a Card in a Pack
671 The Piquet Pack
672 To Make a Card Jump Out of the Pack
672 The Tell-Tale Cards
673 The Card of Divination
673 The Chosen Card Revealed by a Pinch of Snuff
673 To Tell Any Number of Cards Drawn
674 The Drawn Card Nailed to the Wall
674 The Painted Pack
674 Ups and Downs
675 The Card Drawn From the Coat Pocket
675 The Regal Alliance
675 The Card Under the Hat
675 To Convert Four Aces Into Four Kings
676 The Card In the Mirror
676 The Card In the Egg
677 The Mouse In the Pack
677 The Housebreakers
678 The Convertible Aces
678 The Card In the Pocket-Book

679 Feats With Special Apparatus, or Confederacy
679 The Double Funnel
680 The Magic Book
680 The Bottle Imps
680 To Pass a Ring Through Your Cheek
681 The Prancing Dragon
681 Magical Amputation
681 The Ring and the Handkerchief
682 The Bowling Beau
682 The Long Pudding
683 The Russian Ring Trick
683 The Wizard's Chariot
683 The Mutilated Handkerchief Restored
684 The Burnt Handkerchief
684 The Hatched Bird
685 The Egg-Box
685 The Fire and Wine Bottle
685 The Gun Trick
686 The Globe Box
686 To Take Feathers Out of a Handkerchief
687 The Inexhaustible Bottle
687 To Change a Bowl of Ink Into a Bowl of Water
687 A Shower of Sweetmeats From a Handkerchief
688 The Inexhaustible Hat
688 The Bran Trick
689 The Drawer-Box
689 The Washed Handkerchiefs
690 The Sphinx, or Talking Head
690 The Indian Basket Trick
692 Japanese Conjuring
692 The Ghost Illusion
693 Sitting Upon Nothing
694 The Davenport Rope Trick
695 Clairvoyance
696 The Locked Jaw

697 Paradoxes and Puzzles
698 Trouble-Wit
699 The Wine Merchant and His Clerk
699 Profit and Loss
699 The Geometrical Money
700 The Slighted Lady
700 The Sheep-Fold
700 The Poor-House Problem
700 Seven In Two
700 Eighteen Words In Twenty-Three Letters
700 The Wolf, The Goat and the Cabbages
701 Rosamond's Bower
702 The Cherry Cheat
702 Famous Forty-Five
702 The Puzzle of the Cross
702 The Partial Reprieve
703 The Puzzling Rings
705 The Divided Garden
705 The Heart and Ball Puzzle
706 The Card Puzzle
706 The Squares of Triangles
706 The Square Hole and Round Stopper
707 The Triple Accommodation
707 The Scale and Ring Puzzle
708 Comical Portraits

709 Deaf and Dumb Alphabet
711 The Alphabet
711 Concluding Remarks

713 Finale


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