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Title(s):
Spooner's pictorial map of England & Wales : arranged as an amusing and instructive game for youth / illustrated with upwards of one hundred & twenty views.
Additional Title(s):
Cover title: Travellers of England and Wales.
Published/Created:
London : Published by William Spooner ..., Novr. 5th, 1844.
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored lithograph ; sheet 63 x 51 cm, folded to 17 x 18 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
GV1199 .S66 1844
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
Title and imprint from game board.
Board consists of an outline map of England and Wales with various views.
Liman, E. Georgian and Victorian board games, pages 130-131
BAC: British Art Center copy in publisher's original red cloth folder, with lithographed title label. With the label of "Leuchars late Dunnett's Toy Warehouse, 3 Cheapside, London" on inside of front cover.
Subject Terms:
Educational games.
England -- Maps.
England -- Pictorial works.
Geographical recreations -- Specimens.
Liman, Ellen and Arthur -- Provenance.
Wales -- Maps.
Wales -- Pictorial works.
Form/Genre:
Games -- Great Britain.
Recreations -- Great Britain.
Board games.
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1844.
Maps.
Contributors:
Spooner, William, active 1831–1854.
Collection of Ellen and Arthur Liman (Yale Center for British Art).
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