SOCIABLE HOME AMUSEMENTS – Arnold, 1st 1858 – PARLOR GAMES, MAGIC, ENTERTAINMENT
SOCIABLE; OR ONE THOUSAND AND ONE HOME AMUSEMENTS
Book Details + Condition: Dick & Fitzgerald (New York). First Edition, 1858. Hardcover measuring 7.5″ x 5.25″. Green cloth covers with gilt embossed graphics to front and spine. 375 pages, followed by publisher advertisements. Includes “nearly 300 engravings and diagrams”. By “The Magician’s Own Book” author, George Arnold. Book of entertainment ideas for parties, subtitled: “Acting proverbs; dramatic charades; acting charades, or drawing-room pantomimes; musical burlesques; tableaux vivant; parlor games; games of action; forfeits science in sport, and parlor magic; and a choice collection of curious mental and mechanical puzzles; etc.” Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; wear to boards, with darkening; chafed spine ends; missing front free endpaper; toning to pages, with occasional age spotting present; interior is otherwise clean and free of markings.
