Accession number
PML 87333
Published
In London : Invented at the Consistory in Rome and are printed and sold by John Overton over against St. Sepulchers Church, [1665-66?]
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Joy Macdonald in memory of her husband, David R. Macdonald, 2009.
Notes
Copperplate engraved, uncolored board for the Game of Goose, a game of chance, played with two dice and tokens. Sixty-three numbered, columned spaces are arranged in two concentric, counter-clockwise tracks that lead into an rectangular space that holds the rules of the game. In the four corners are depicted various figures, such as a jester and a lute-playing couple with a dog. Some spaces have images, thirteen of which are favorable spaces depicting geese, while others are hazard spaces depicting a maze, a well, a bridge, Death, and at the end, two figures with goblets, sitting on a barrel.
Wing (p. 677) locates John Overton at the White Horse in Giltspur Street near St. Sepulchers Church in 1665-66.
"Sold at the Black Lyon in Exeter Exchange in the Strand London. Where you may have Musick Prick'd"--bookseller's label pasted on, to cover the original imprint.
Sheet without watermark.
Earliest known copy of the first English board game.
Wing (p. 677) locates John Overton at the White Horse in Giltspur Street near St. Sepulchers Church in 1665-66.
"Sold at the Black Lyon in Exeter Exchange in the Strand London. Where you may have Musick Prick'd"--bookseller's label pasted on, to cover the original imprint.
Sheet without watermark.
Earliest known copy of the first English board game.
Description
1 sheet : ill. (engraving) ; 49.3 x 37 cm (plate mark) ; 60 x 46.7 cm (sheet)
Provenance
David R. Macdonald; Joy Macdonald.
Classification
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