Geographical Game.- Jefferys (Thomas) The Royal Geographical Pastime or...
Geographical Game.- Jefferys (Thomas) The Royal Geographical Pastime or the Tour of Europe, FIRST EDITION, original hand-coloured engraving of Europe with rules in letterpress down both sides, printed on paper dissected into 16 parts and backed onto linen, folded, with original marbled paper slipcase, lacking Totum and counters/Travellers, cloth creases worn and split in some places, slipcase worn, map c. 507 x 665 mm, Thomas Jefferys, 1768. *** An important geographical game - one of the earliest dated and produced in England. The map shows all Europe on which a route through one hundred and three cities is followed as a game commencing at Dover and ends in London, ranging as far as Iceland, Archangel and Cairo. Gillian Hill in Cartographical Curiosities comments: "In England, although variations of the 'game of goose' were certainly known, it was only towards the end of the eighteenth century that printed board-games began to be published to any great extent" (They were not in fact issued on boards, but on paper mounted on canvas or linen).
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Geographical Game.- Jefferys (Thomas) The Royal Geographical Pastime or the Tour of Europe, FIRST EDITION, original hand-coloured engraving of Europe with rules in letterpress down both sides, printed on paper dissected into 16 parts and backed onto linen, folded, with original marbled paper slipcase, lacking Totum and counters/Travellers, cloth creases worn and split in some places, slipcase worn, map c. 507 x 665 mm, Thomas Jefferys, 1768. *** An important geographical game - one of the earliest dated and produced in England. The map shows all Europe on which a route through one hundred and three cities is followed as a game commencing at Dover and ends in London, ranging as far as Iceland, Archangel and Cairo. Gillian Hill in Cartographical Curiosities comments: "In England, although variations of the 'game of goose' were certainly known, it was only towards the end of the eighteenth century that printed board-games began to be published to any great extent" (They were not in fact issued on boards, but on paper mounted on canvas or linen).
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