68 Rare Old Books on Toy Making Vintage Toys Dolls Woodworking Plans Patterns Cars Airplanes Boats How To DIY Crafts - Instant PDF Download

The Vintage Toys & Toy Making Collection

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The Digital Library is proud to present this stunning virtual archive of 68 rare, vintage and hard-to-find books and documents compiled together for the first time providing a fabulous library for anyone with an interest in vintage toys, toy-making and model building.

Learn how to build all sorts of vintage toys, from tin can toys to electric amusements. Discover the old art of building model ships, yachts and aeroplanes, with plans for everything. Study the art of kite-building and fly your own creations. Find out about the history of toys and amusements for both boys and girls. With numerous manuals, handicraft books and guides for building vintage toys, not only does this collection provide all the information you could want on building toys, it also provides a fascinating historical insight into entertaining children in the days before ipads, playstations and computers.….

Some of the books contained within this collection are extremely hard-to-find and will provide a valuable library of reference material for anyone with an interest in vintage toys and toy-making. The full list of titles speaks for itself!

This is a DIGITAL item! All of the books have been scanned in HQ and preserved forever in modern pdf format, easy to read on any laptop, computer, e-reader, tablet or even smartphone. You can also print any page you wish or even books in their entirety.


*** Full List of Books Included ***

A hundred things a girl can make by B. E. Snow (1922)

Advanced toy making for schools by D. M. Mitchell (1922)

Amateur mechanics - a book for old and young who like to make things by Popular Mechanics Magazine, Chicago (1907)

Boy's book of model boats - with numerous illustrations from drawings and photographs by R. F. Yates (1920)

Boy's make-at-home things by C. S. Bailey (1912)

Carpentry & mechanics for boys by A. N. Hall (1918)

Coping saw work by B. W. Johnson (1909)

Designs for architectural models to be erected with Richter's anchor blocks by F. Richter & Co. (1900)

Educational toys, consisting chiefly of coping-saw problems for children in the school and the home by L. C. Peterson (1920)

Electric toy making for amateurs - including batteries, magnets, motors, miscellaneous toys and dynamo construction by T. O. Sloane (1897)

Every boy his own mechanic by B. E. Jones (1919)

Every boy's book - a complete encyclopaedia of sports and amusements by E. Routledge (1868)

Handicraft for boys by A. F. Collins (1918)

Handicraft for handy boys; practical plans for work and play with many ideas for earning money by A. N. Hall (1911)

Handicraft for handy girls; practical plans for work and play by A. N. Hall (1916)

Harper's aircraft book; why aeroplanes fly, how to make models, and all about aircraft, little and big by A. H. Verril (1913)

Hello boys! look at these Gilbert toys by A. C. Gilbert Company (1919)

Histoire des jouets - ouvrage contenant 250 illustrations dans le texte et 100 gravures hors texte dont 50 planches coloriées à l'aquarelle par H. R. Allemagne (1902)

Home-made toys for girls and boys - wooden and cardboard toys, mechanical and electrical toys by A. N. Hall (1915)

Indoor and outdoor recreations for girls by L. Beard (1906)

Kitecraft and kite tournaments by C. M. Miller (1919)

Les jeux et les jouets, leur histoire par A. Parmentier (1912)

Making tin can toys by E. Thatcher (1919)

Manual training toys for the boy's workshop by H. W. Moore (1919)

Manual training--play problems; constructive work for boys and girls based on the play interest by W. S. Marten (1917)

Mechanics for young America; a book for old and young who like to make things by Popular Mechanics (1910)

Model aeroplanes and their motors, a practical book for beginners by G. A. Cavanagh (1916)

Model engine-making in theory and practice by J. Pocock (1888)

Model yachts and model yacht sailing - how to build, rig, and sail a self-acting model yacht by J. E. Walton (1880)

Mother Nature's toy-shop by L. Beard (1918)

Our boys; what they can do and how to do it by W. Stoddart (1893)

Parakites - a treatise on the making and flying of tailless kites for scientific purposes and for recreation by G. T. Woglom (1896)

Practical kites and aëroplanes; how to make and work them by F. Walker (1903)

Practical mechanics for boys, in language which every boy can understand by J. S. Zerbe (1914)

The American boys' workshop by C. B. Kelland (1914)

The Automatic toy works, New York (1882)

The boy craftsman; practical and profitable ideas for a boy's leisure hours by A. N. Hall (1905)

The boy engineers by J. Lukin (1880)

The boy mechanic - 800 things for boys to do by Popular Mechanics (1919)

The boy mechanic - 1000 things for boys to do by Popular Mechanics (c1915)

The boys' book of model aeroplanes; how to build and fly them with the story of the evolution of the flying machine by F. A. Collins (1910)

The boy's own toy-maker by E. Landells (1860)

The complete playcraft book by P. Beard (1921)

The construction and flying of kites by C. M. Miller (1909)

The girls own toy-maker and book of recreation by A. & E. Landells (1860)

The handy boy; a modern handy book of practical and profitable pastimes by A. N. Hall (1913)

The jolly book of boxcraft by P. Beard (1914)

The playwork book by A. Macbeth (1918)

The scientific American boy at school by A. R. Bond (1910)

The theory and practice of model aeroplaning by V. E. Johnson (1910)

The young craftsman; descriptions of over 450 easy craft projects reprinted from past issues of Popular mechanics magazine, What-to-make,and other publications (1921)

The young mechanic; containing directions for the use of all kinds of tools, and for the construction of steam engines and mechanical models by J. Lukin (1882)

Things to make in your home workshop by A. Wakeling (1920)

Things to make; a book on hand-work and service for girls and boys by J. G. Hutton (1916)

Tin can toys and how to make them by C. Williams (1916)

Toy craft by L. H. Baxter (1922)

Toy making for amateurs by J. Lukin (1889)

Toy-making at home; how to make a hundred toys from odds and ends by M. Adams (1915)

Toy-making in school and home by R. K. Polkinghorne (1916)

Toys and their place in the education of the child by E. Harrison (1893)

Toys, painted by W. Trier by O Seyffert (1922)

Toys, their design and construction by J. Kay (1912)

Ways for boys to make and do things by C. M. Skinner (1887)

When mother lets us carpenter; a book telling boys and girls how to make many useful and attractive articles with few tools and at small expense by J. D. Adams (1916)

When mother lets us make gifts by M. B. Grubb (1914)

When mother lets us make toys by G. E. Rich (1915)



An absolute must for anyone with an interest in vintage toys & models, their history and how they were made – an unbelievable treasure trove of information for a very small price – compiled by The Digital Library, and only available here!


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