Guide to Making Wooden Toys for Children

This vintage book is a comprehensive and accessible manual for building dolls houses and furniture. Provided are detailed, step-by-step instructions for building a variety of houses, beginning with a simple model schoolhouse that could be made cheaply by children, and going on to more complicated tasks that eventually lead to the construction of a nineteenth century drapers shop and flat. Contents include: "e;A School A Confectioner's Shop and Cafe"e;, "e;A Late Victorian Draper's Shop"e;, "e;A Westmorland Farmhouse"e;, "e;A Tall Villa"e;, "e;A Sweet Shop"e;, "e;A Hunting Lodge"e;, "e;A Miniature Doll's House"e;, "e;A Public House"e;, "e;A Cabinet in the Form of a Doll's House"e;, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on dolls.