• British and Foreign Birds. A new game moral, instructive and amusing; designed to allure the minds of youth to an acquaintance with the wonders of Nature.

Created:
  • 1820-01-01T00:00:00Z
Extent:
  • a)9 panels mounted on linen hand-colored engraved sheet 50 x 49.5 cm.
  • b)31 [1] p. 15.5 cm.
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/3r0751902
Language:
  • English
Publisher:
  • London. Wm. Darton. [1820].
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Range label:
  • Logical
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Call number:
  • Eng 18 / board games 61131
Format:
  • Visual material
Description:
  • The playing board features oval illustrations of birds, the track enclosed by a coiled serpent.
  • Instruction booklet included with rules and detailed, scientific descriptions of birds.
  • Advertisements for 'Instructive and Amusing Games in Geography, &c.,' on rear wrapper of instruction booklet.
  • Housed with instruction booklet, CID 61132.
  • good condition.
Binding note:
  • Pub. marbled slip case and color-printed pictorial onlay in later tan cloth case.
Date:
  • 1820
Location:
  • Special Collections Eng 18 / board games 61131
Alternative:
  • Explanation, or Key, to British and Foreign Birds. A New Game...
Scopenote:
  • Game board only, not sleeve or booklet
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