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.
Game of the goose