A tour through the British colonies and foreign possessions : forming an amusing and instructive game.

Format
Visual material
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : John Betts, 115 Strand, nearly opposite Exeter Hall, [not before 1854]
Description
1 game within a slipcase box : paper mounted on cloth ; 66 x 51 cm., fold. to 22 x 17 cm. 1 instruction booklet (24, [16] p. ; 16 cm.), in slipcase.

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      Notes
      • Title and subtitle from cover of instruction booklet; title proper only on game board and slipcase box.
      • Undated; Taylor at Graystoke Place address from 1854 onwards (cf. Brown, London pubs., p. 198); 1849 is the latest date mentioned in instruction booklet, presumably issued with the game, for of the purchase of Banks's Peninsula (p. 17).
      • Game board is a folded sheet, printed on one side only, with 9 separate panels mounted on a cloth backing, folded for storage in a slipcase, which is open at the top; two small, textured colored-paper tabs are on reverse side of two game panels to aid in pulling game from box.
      • Instruction booklet includes background information and colonial history of each of the 37destinations on the "tour."
      • "Catalogue of maps, atlases, dissected maps, amusing, instructive, and educational games, etc., etc., published by John Betts ..."--Publisher's catalog on [16] p. at end of instruction booklet.
      • "Betts's series of eductional games"--Publisher's advertisement on lower wrapper of instruction booklet.
      • "S. Taylor, printer, Graystoke-Place, Fetter-Lane"--At foot of p. 24 of booklet.
      • Illustrations: Colored stipple engravings on game board, including vignettes of the 37 game locations (from Heligoland to the Channel Islands to London) arranged in a circular pattern, and 6 additional scenes at top and bottom of board, including Britannia shown with the British lion and Neptune; lower right corner of playing board ill. signed with a decorative "JB" script monogram.
      • Princeton copy 2 Lacks instruction booklet.
      • Princeton copy 1 Lack markers and "tetotum" (numbered spinner), mentioned in the instructions.
      • Princeton copy 2 Lack markers and "tetotum" (numbered spinner), mentioned in the instructions.
      • Princeton copy 1 Dark green morocco-grained paper on slipcase and the two finger-pulls on back of game board.
      • Princeton copy 2 Green ribbon-embossed patterned paper on slipcase with blue square-mesh-patterned paper (possibly later) on finger-pulls.
      • Princeton copy 2 Later light blue paper backing added to two back-panels of game-board.
      Binding note
      • Slipcase in green textured paper with colored stipple-engraved pictorial label on front, which depicts a family standing on a dock with steam-ships and sailing ships behind them, beneath title in a banner.
      • Instruction booklet with pub. printed green wrappers.
      OCLC
      40594476
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