Biblioteca de las Travesuras. Juegos Masculinos, (c. 1870)
Paris and Mexico: Ch. Bouret
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64mo. (4)ff. Two full-page chromolithographs show boys playing at archery and leapfrog, and two more on the wrappers depict them occupied with ring toss and pole-climbing. These, and the text,...
64mo. (4)ff. Two full-page chromolithographs show boys playing at archery and leapfrog, and two more on the wrappers depict them occupied with ring toss and pole-climbing. These, and the text, were printed in Haarlem by Emrik & Binger, and together with the transatlantic presence of the publisher, Ch. Bouret, make this a fascinating global project with a Spanish-speaking audience in mind. The interior of the front wrapper shows the alphabet, and at the interior of the rear is a series of syllables. These bracket a short, but relatively advanced, text asserting that gameplay prepares boys for the rigors of manhood. Quite crisp and fine in stitched wrappers. No records apparent in OCLC.