The naturalist [game] : a new game, moral and instructive.

Accession number: 
PML 85727.1-3
Published: 
London : Published by J. Wallis, no. 42 Skinner Street, Snow Hill, March 15, 1813.
Description: 
1 game (1 board) : ill. (handcol. engravings) ; 48 x 38 cm; folded to: 16 x 19 cm + 1 booklet.
Credit: 
Possibly from the Elisabeth Ball collection.
Notes: 

Title from game board.
Title and date on the slipcase: Wallis's new game of the naturalist. Published July 25, 1813
The board consists of a hand-colored, engraved sheet mounted in six sections on a single folded sheet of linen; embellished with 44 numbered illustrations of animals arranged counter-clockwise in spiral formation around the central lion.
The title page of the 24 page booklet of rules reads: Explanation to Wallis's new game of The Naturalist. Second edition. London : Printed for J. and E. Wallis, 42, Skinner-Street, Snow-Hill; and J. Wallis, Sidmouth. 1815.
The board of library's copy now unfolded and matted (PML 85727.1) booklet (PML 85727.2) and slipcase (PML 85727.3) are stored separately in the same box.
The game requires counters, markers, and a teetotem, not supplied by publisher.
"Printed by J. Pittman, Warwick Square, London"--p. 24 of booklet.

Binding: 
Publisher's tan paper slipcase with engraved, handcolored, pictorial label which bears the date of July 25, 1813 and an illustration of a travelling menagerie (17 x 19 cm)
Variant Title: 

Wallis's new game of the naturalist

Classification: 
Game
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Department: 
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