How to amuse an evening party : a complete collection of home recreations ..
An 1869 New York parlour-game and home-entertainment compendium from Dick & Fitzgerald, aimed at family and evening-party hosts, with puzzles, tricks and recreations. Its pictures are plain black-and-white line engravings: a square dissected into triangles, a hand holding a netted glass flask, a numbered octagonal cut-up puzzle, and a hand swinging a pendulum with a ball on a string. A designer could take their clean diagrammatic line work and simple geometric layouts as models for Victorian puzzle and parlour-game graphics.
