The boy's holyday book, for all seasons : containing complete instructions for angling, swimming, conjuring, the making of fireworks, cricket, archery, gymnastics, and the various games for boys : numerous scientific experiments & amusements : elucidations of photography, electrotype, and daguerreotype : arithmetical pastimes : the language of the deaf & dumb, &c. : with numerous engravings
The Boy's Holyday Book is an 1840 London miscellany compiled by G.H. Davidson for boys, covering angling, swimming, conjuring, fireworks, cricket, archery, gymnastics, games, simple science experiments, and arithmetical pastimes. Its pictures are small black-and-white line engravings of objects and diagrams, including a paper flap or box, a two-part egg-shaped container, a pleated paper form labelled D, and numbered magic-square grids labelled A to H. A designer could take clean, schematic line work and labelled diagram layouts as a model for instructional graphics.
