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Books in the Games genre:

The Nursery Rhymes of England (1843)

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The first collection of English nursery rhymes and children's song that aimed at completeness. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): James Orchard Halliwell
Illustrator(s): None

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Routledge’s Coloured Picture Book Containing The Juvenile Party, One, Two Buckle My Shoe, History of Our Pets, The Cats’ Tea Party (1871)

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One, Two Buckle My Shoe is by Walter Crane.

Author(s): Anonymous
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane
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The Favorite Holiday Book for Boys (1872)

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An anthology. Read for free online at the University of Florida.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane
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Kate Greenaway’s Book of Games (1889)

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How-to-play fifty-three different games with twenty-four color illustrations. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Kate Greenaway
Illustrator(s): Kate Greenaway

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The Whist Reference Book (1897)

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A large book on the history and rules of whist. The frontispiece is by Parrish. Read online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): William Mill Butler
Illustrator(s): Maxfield Parrish

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What Shall We Do Now? (1900)

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A collection of games and activities for children. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): E. V. Lucas
E. Lucas
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

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Out-Door Games, Cricket & Golf (1901)

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A volume in the Haddon Hall Library on popular British pastimes. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): R. H. Lyttelton
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham
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The Birchbark Roll of the Woodcraft Indians (1902)

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This manual for the organization of an Indian tribe was first published in 1902. It was instrumental in the later founding of the Boy Scouts of America and was reprinted many times, at least into the 1930’s. The cover above is for the sixth edi... View More

Author(s): Ernest Seton Thompson
Illustrator(s): Ernest Seton Thompson

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How to Play Indian (1903)

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This pamphlet was reprinted from Ladies’ Home Journal. It was the first instruction for the new Woodcraft Indians. Read for free online at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.... View More

Author(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): Ernest Thompson Seton

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The Gold Bat (1904)

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A tale of Wrykyn, an English ‘public’ school, cricket and certain pranks, one of which targeted the local MP. Read online at Gutenberg.org.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): T. M. R. Whitwell

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Play the Game! (1904)

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A British boys’ school story.

Author(s): Harold Avery
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

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The Red Book, or How to Play Indian (1904)

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This is the second edition of the handbook that started the Woodcraft Indians.

Author(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): Ernest Thompson Seton

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The Head of Kay’s (1905)

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Having been appointed head boy of Kay’s house against his will, Kennedy soon finds that it is something like taking over the running of Hades while Mephistopheles sat back and watched. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): T. M. R. Whitwell

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Boy Scouts of America: Official Handbook (1910)

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The ‘Original” edition of the Boy Scouts of America Handbook was written by E. T. Seton, using some of the material from R. Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys. Read for free online at the E. T. Seton Institute.... View More

Author(s): Robert Baden-Powell
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): Robert Baden-Powell

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The War Dance and the Fire-Fly Dance (1910)

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A pamphlet for use by the Woodcraft Indians.

Author(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): None

The Book of Woodcraft (1912)

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A comprehensive guide to woodcraft by one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): Ernest Thompson Seton

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The Red Lodge (1912)

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Limited edition set of bylaws for an adult version of the Woodcraft Indians.

Author(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): Ernest Thompson Seton

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Wings and the Child: or The Building of Magic Cities (1913)

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Here the author explains her theory of play and the building of play cities and landscapes as in her own novel The Magic City. Read online at Project Gutenberg. Or at Google Books.... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): George Barraud
Photographs

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Manual of the Woodcraft Indians The Fourteenth Birch Bark Roll (1915)

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This is a handbook for starting and running an Indian tribe. This was one of the precursors of the Scouting movement, and includes ‘merit badges.’ First published in 1902, this is the fourteenth edition. Read for free online at HathiTrust... View More

Author(s): Ernest Seton Thompson
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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The Woodcraft Manual For Girls of the Woodcraft League (1916)

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An early scouting handbook for girls. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
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Illustrator(s): Unknown

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