The American girls handy book : how to amuse yourself and others /

Beard, Lina.

The American girls handy book : how to amuse yourself and others / by Lina Beard and Adelia B. Beard ; foreword by Anne M. Boylan - Centennial ed. - Boston : D.R. Godine, 1987, �1887 - xxiv, 474 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm - Nonpareil books ; #46 . - Nonpareil book ; 46. .

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Scribner, 1887. Includes index.

A reprint of a gay nineties publication for young ladies instructing them in such hobbies as fancy needlework, handmade dolls, china painting, painting in oils, heraldic painting, preservation of wild flowers, and many others.

0879236663 9780879236663

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Handicraft--Juvenile literature.
Handicraft.
Handicraft.


Literature.
Juvenile works.
Nonfiction.
Literature.

TT 171 / .B38 1987

790.1