Author: PEPPER, J
Title: The Boy's Playbook of Science
Description: London, Routledge, Warne and Routledge. 1860. Book, The Boy's Playbook of Science: including the various manipulations and arrangements of chemical and philosophical apparatus required for the successful performance of scientific experiments in illustration of the elementary branches of chemistry and natural philosophy by John Pepper. Published by Routledge Warne and Routledge London 1860. 2nd edition. Illustrated with 470 engravings. Half leather binding with stiff marbled boards size 18 by 12.5 cm. 440 pages. Presentation bookplate to front endpaper. Head and foot of spine scuffed. A snapshot of mid-Victorian scientific education. Good to VG condition.

Keywords: Education