What a Girl Can Make and Do. New Ideas for Work and Play.

New York; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902 First edition. Publisher's red cloth with gold, black, and white lettering and cover art, featuring girls engaged in activities such as playing and weaving. Octavo. Illustrated title-page and instructional illustrations throughout. A very good or better copy, remarkably clean and bright throughout. Includes "Her Book" bookplate on front pastedown. Blue, zig-zag cut out laid in on back pastedown. This companion volume to the American Girls Handy-Book includes a wide range of instructions for crafts and activities such as wood working, valentines, witchcraft, and basketball. The preface begins: "This new century, bringing with it the strong, healthy, independent, athletic American girl, makes a demand for new opportunities for the exercise of both mind and body" (v.) Therefore, the activities in this book move beyond traditional women's work, aimed instead at "modern girls, girls of the twentieth century, who like to use both brains and hands." ( (Inventory #: 17847)