Accession number
PML 87699
Published
Albany : Pease and Warren, [ca. 1850]
Credit line
Gift:of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
Original cardboard box with hand-colored lithographs of a father presenting the game to his children. 26 hand-colored cards depict different trades: printer, engraver, bookbinder, paper-maker, weaver, glass-blower, etc. Fourteen colored cards of objects made by the various trades. Six printed penalty cards and 54 (should be 55) printed cards with names of objects. With eight-page booklet of instructions which also contains a list of games published by Pease and Warren, and has a full page woodcut of Pease's "Temple of Fancy" on last page.
Missing card 12
Bookseller's catalog advertisement on inner back wrapper.
Missing card 12
Bookseller's catalog advertisement on inner back wrapper.
Description
1 game + 1 booklet (8 p.) : handcol. ill. (lithographs) ; 12 x 16 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Publisher's pictorial box; within a yellow oasis and cloth box case by J.P.W.
Classification
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Department