Beschreibung:

first edition, 11 engraved plates on 12 sheets only (of 12 on 13, lacking plate 9 but supplied from another edition, smaller and loosely inserted), one plate with small tear to fore-edge, 1821 § Endless Amusement; a collection of nearly 400 entertaining experiments...[with] a Complete System of Pyrotechny..., second edition, large folding wood-engraved frontispiece, advertisement leaf at end, [c.1820] § Rational Recreations, wood-engraved illustrations, old ink signature on front pastedown and riddle on rear free endpaper, 1824 § Recreations in Science; or, a complete series of Rational Amusement, large folding wood-engraved frontispiece, title-vignette, old ink ownership stamp on front free endpaper, 1830, a little spotting and browning, original printed boards, the third pictorial and rebacked, rubbed, the first and last spines defective, the last with part loosely inserted, 12mo (4)