Boy Scout Tests and How to Pass Them, Boy Scouts Association and Robert E. Young, 1939
A substantial and fully illustrated pre-war handbook of the Boy Scouts Association, this 1939 revised edition of Boy Scout Tests and How to Pass Them provides comprehensive instruction for every badge and proficiency test in use on the eve of the Second World War. Compiled by Imperial Headquarters and Robert E. Young, and published by Brown, Son & Ferguson of Glasgow, it offers a detailed snapshot of scouting skills, values, and training methods during a formative period in the movement’s history. Its clear diagrams, extensive guidance, and coloured plates make it both a practical manual and a rich piece of social and youth-organisation history.
Boy Scout Tests and How to Pass Them; Complete Instruction in all the Tests. Compiled by Imperial Headquarters, Boy Scouts Association and Robert E. Young. Official Publication issued under agreement with the Boy Scouts Association, London.
Published by Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd., Glasgow, Official Publishers to the Boy Scouts Association, London. Revised edition, 1939.
A good minus green cloth hardback with printed cover design and titles to spine. Housed in original dustjacket. Covers lightly bumped and with some give in the spine. Rear outer joint is weakened and cloth is broken. Rear cover stained and marked. The dustjacket is intact, but worn to extremities, with some tears along joints, and with nibbled and chipped losses. Now housed in clear, protective, removable plastic. Text block is bound with no loose pages. Previous owner's inscription in pencil to endpaper.
Endpapers with some spotting. Text is clear and legible throughout, with age toning to edges. Contains many illustrations, including additional colour to 2 spreads for the 'Pilot Badge', and 2 colour flag pages.
An imperfect, but very usable, copy, and a fascinating, insight into the boy scout movement in the first half of the twentieth century.
Text in English.
(viii, including Errata) + 847pp + (15) advertisements.
Dimensions: approx 192mm high x 134mm wide x 46mm deep.
Weight: approximately 710g (unpacked).