2024-03-29T11:55:41Z
http://localhost:8183/OAI_BAC/src/OAIOrbisTool.jsp
oai:orbis.library.yale.edu:13603934
2022-03-20
bacrb
02716crm a2200433 i 4500
13603934
20220320235308.0
020305s1791 enknnn j dneng d
(OCoLC)ocn317748957
13603934
TOH
eng
rda
TOH
OCLCQ
OCLCO
OCLCF
OCLCQ
CtY-BA
(OCoLC)317748957
e-uk---
YUSS
Johnson, R.
(Richard),
1733 or 1734-1793,
author.
The royal genealogical pastime of the sovereigns of England :
from the dissolution of the Saxon heptarchy to the reign of His Present Majesty George the Third.
Royal genealogical pastime of the sovereigns of England :
from Egbert to George the 3rd
London :
Published ... by E. Newbery, the corner of St. Pauls Church Yard, and John Wallis, no. 16 Ludgate Street,
Novr. 30th 1791.
London :
Sorrell, printer, Bartholomew-Close, Smithfield
1 game :
hand-colored engraving ;
sheet 41 x 73 cm, folded to 21 x 12 cm
Author attribution from M.J.P Weedon's Richard Johnson and the successors to John Newbery, page 60, no. 79.
A hand-coloured plate, mounted on linen in 8 sections, is flanked on each side by printed biographical descriptions of the monarchs, mounted in four sections, with the caption "Rules for playing the game."
The engraving incorporates "Utility of the game" and "Rules for playing the game" in copperplate calligraphy, 52 numbered shields, and the portraits of 4 kings: Egbert, William the Conqueror, Harold II, and George III.
Issued in a marbled slipcase with an engraved title label.
Osborne Collection of early children's books, 1566-1910,
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q107432663
II:852-3
Osborne Collection. Ingenious contrivances,
51
Whitehouse, F.R.B. Table games,
page 25
BAC: British Art Center copy in original slipcase, with additional bookseller's label: Bot. at S. Jesse's Toy Perfume and Fishing Tackle Warehouse at the Rocking Horse, 32, High Street, Exeter.
Board games
Early works to 1800.
Queens
Great Britain
Juvenile literature.
Great Britain
Kings and rulers
Juvenile literature.
Engravings
Hand-colored
1791.
gmgpc
CtY-BA
Board games.
aat
Games.
rbgenr
S. Jesse's Toy Perfume and Fishing Tackle Warehouse
Bookseller.
Newbery, E.
(Elizabeth),
1746-1821,
publisher.
Wallis, J.
(John),
-1818,
publisher.
Sorrell, Thomas,
active 1791-1821,
printer.
C0
YUS