The Novel and elegant game of The basket of fruit, or, Moral & intellectual dessert. [game]

Accession number: 
PML 86935-36
Published: 
London : William Darton, 58, Holborn Hill, [1822]
Description: 
1 sheet : ill. ; 42 x 51 cm; 17 cm, folded, + 1 booklet
Credit: 
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes: 

Printed label on slipcase has title: The delicious game of the fruit basket : containing a literary treat for a party of juveniles, and running over with choice subjects for their improvement and diversion.
Rule book title: An explanation of, or key to, The delicious game of the fruit-basket : containing a literary treat for a party of juveniles, and running over with choice subjects for their improvement and diversion, in various familiar scenes connected with old England : to which are prefixed the rules of the game.
Rule book imprint: London : William Darton ... , 1822 (London : Printed by R. and A. Taylor).
Engraved game board is hand-colored and mounted on linen.
Publisher's advertisements p. 66-72 of the rule book.
With its separate, 72 p. book of rules. Folding hand-colored game with instructions showing images of prisons, schools, infirmaries.
Title and imprint from game.
Printed by R. and A. Taylor, Shoe-Lane, London"--p 72, rule book.

Binding: 
Folded into original green paste paper slipcase with colored print on front.
Variant Title: 

Title on booklet: An explanation of, or key to The delicious game of the fruit basket

Provenance: 
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Classification: 
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