Rare geographical game of Scotland
By WALLIS, J[ohn] , 1792

A New Geographical Game exhibiting a complete tour through Scotland and the Western Isles

British Isles Scotland
  • 作者: WALLIS, J[ohn]
  • 出版地: London,
  • 出版商: Published by J. Wallis No.16 Ludgate Street, & E. Newbery corner of St Pauls Church Yard,
  • 发布日期: Jan[uar]y, 1792.
  • 物理描述: Engraved map, original hand-colour, dissected and mounted on linen, game rules pasted to left and right margins, housed in original blue paper slipcase with publisher's label.
  • 方面: 650 by 530mm (25.5 by 20.75 inches).
  • 库存参考: 18218

笔记

This scarce and beautiful instructional game was to be played as a lotto, each player moving around the finely detailed map.

The game begins at (No.1) Berwick "where is an ancient castle now in ruins. It is the principal entrance from England and Scotland"; and ends at (No.100) Edinburgh, "the capital city of all Scotland, where the traveller, having now finished his journey, may congratulate himself on having won the game, and may now view every thing curious without paying for it". On the way the travellers could stop off at Aberdeen "which has a celebrated university", or Glasgow "a large and populace city, situated on the north banks of the Clyde".

John Wallis (d.1818) together with his son John Wallis Jr. and Edward Wallis was one of the most prolific publishers of board games of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Rare, we are only able to trace one institutional copy that in Newberry Library.

参考书目

  1. Eng 18 - Newbery 7152.
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