PEPPER, John Henry (1821 - 1900). The Boy?s Playbook of Science? London: George Routledge and Sons, 1869. New Edition. 8vo. Original full brown cloth, front board and spine stamped in gilt, boards stamped in blind. With engraved frontispiece and three plates inserted; with numerous intertextual diagrams and illustrations. [viii], [1]-440 pp. Cloth spine sunned, some mild wear, rubbing to boards, light soiling to endleaves, a few gutters overopened. Fine. On the verso of the ffep is a school?s gift inscription for ?Second Prize in Second Division? dated 1869. Dawes? bookplate. Toole Stott 553.