Accession number:
PML 87699
Published:
Albany : Pease and Warren, [ca. 1850]
Description:
1 game + 1 booklet (8 p.) : handcol. ill. (lithographs) ; 12 x 16 cm
Credit:
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.
Binding:
Publisher's pictorial box; within a yellow oasis and cloth box case by J.P.W.
Variant Title:
Trades game
Provenance:
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
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