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Wallis's elegant and instructive game exhibiting the wonders of art, in each quarter of the world.
Date:
[ca. 1820]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; 46 x 62 cm, folded to 24 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Conversation cards, or, Pleasing pastimes for winter evenings : [game]
Date:
[ca. 1815?]
Physical Description:
[26] pictorial cards : ill. ; 65 x 45 mm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Why, what, and because, or, The road to the temple of knowledge / T.H. Jones, del. et litho.
Date:
[approximately 1855]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored lithograph ; 33 x 44 cm folded to 33 x 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
The destruction of Jerusalem.
Date:
[ca. 1824?]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; sheet 46 x 58 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
The poetry box / [Eileen Hogan].
Creator:
Hogan, Eileen, 1946–
Date:
[2003]
Physical Description:
[80] cards : col. ill., ports. ; 55 x 90 mm. + 1 booklet ([36] p.) ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Universal building-blocks box = Boite à construction en bois = Universal-Holzbaukasten.
Date:
[late 19th century?]
Physical Description:
1 set of building blocks (63 pieces) : wood ; various sizes, in wooden box 17 x 24 x 5
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
G. W.'s transparencies : Tintern Abbey.
Date:
[approximately 1840?]
Physical Description:
1 print : lithograph, hand colored ; 19 x 15 cm, on mount 27 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The magic ring : a new game : replete with humour and pleasant variety.
Date:
November 1st, 1796
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; sheet 42 x 57 cm, folded to 19 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Game of the Great Exhibition of 1851 / W.P. Metchim, lith., 1 Adam St., Strand.
Date:
[1851]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored lithograph ; sheet 50 x 62 cm, folded to 17 x 21 cm, in covers 18 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Model of HMS Victory.
Date:
2018
Physical Description:
1 model : paper, wood, brass, thread ; 78 x 109 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Louis G. Audette, Yale BA 1962, BFA 1963, MS 1965
Trafalgar : the new naval game.
Date:
[early 20th century]
Physical Description:
1 game (24 pieces, 1 game board, 1 box, 1 folded sheet of instructions) ; in box 12 x 15 x 5 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
The British tourist : a new game.
Date:
[1830s?]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; 50 x 63 cm, folded to 22 x 13 cm, in slipcase 22 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Wallis's tour of Europe : a new geographical pastime / McIntyre sculpsit.
Date:
Nov. 24th, 1794
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; 46 x 50 cm, on sheet 49 x 70 cm, folded to 17 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Happy may they birthday be.
Date:
[1880?]
Physical Description:
1 item : color illustrations ; 22 x 8 cm, folded to 12 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The paths of life / by J.H. Cotterell ; drawn on stone by C. Burton.
Creator:
Cotterell, J. H. (Jacob Henry), -1868
Date:
[circa 1840]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored lithograph ; 55 x 64 cm, folded to 16 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
The wonders of the world : chiefly in reference to the architectural works of the ancients : an entirely new game, for the amusement and education of youth / W. Kohler litho.
Date:
[ca. 1843]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored lithograph ; sheet 54 x 44 cm, folded to 15 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Origin of the Union Jack of Great Britain.
Date:
1868
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ; 9 x 22 cm, folded to 9 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Hyakunin isshu karuta.
Date:
late 18th century?
Physical Description:
200 playing cards
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Fortune teller's notebook.
Date:
[1829?]
Physical Description:
1 volume (15 pages) : illustrations ; 11 cm, in boards 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The mansion of bliss : a new game for the amusement of youth / by T. Newton ...
Creator:
Newton, T
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; sheet 57 x 45 cm, folded to 19 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Science in sport, or, The pleasure of astronomy : a new & instructive pastime : revised and approved by M. Bryan, of Blackheath
Date:
[1804]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving : sheet 43 x 55 cm, folded to 22 by 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
To my love.
Date:
[1880?]
Physical Description:
1 card : color illustrations ; 10 x 7 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The mirror of truth : exhibiting a variety of biographical anecdotes and moral essays : calculated to inspire a love of virtue and abhorrence of vice.
Date:
Jany. 1st, 1811
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; sheet 46 x 57 cm, folded to 19 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Paper doll.
Date:
approximately 1830?
Physical Description:
1 paper doll (4 pieces) ; 80 x 110 mm, in envelope 120 x 400 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Court game of geography.
Date:
[between 1838 and 1855]
Physical Description:
1 game (52 cards) : hand colored illustrations, hand colored maps ; cards 10 x 7cm + 1 booklet (32 pages)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The combat with the giant : a new invented and entertaining game.
Date:
September 1st, 1796
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; 40 x 40 cm, folded to 13 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A gentleman's park dissected.
Date:
18--]
Physical Description:
1 diorama (various pieces) : paper, col. and lead, col. ; in box, 13 x 18 x 9 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Dean's new magic picture book : showing wonderful & lifelike effects of real distance & space : book I : contains The Crystal Palace, St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, The Thames Tunnel.
Date:
[between 1857 and 1865]
Physical Description:
[4] leaves : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Royal race course : a merry round game / designed & lithographed by G.E. Madeley, 3 Wellington Street, Strand.
Date:
[ca. 1845?]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored lithograph ; sheet 48 x 48, folded in covers 18 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Laurie's new and entertaining game of the golden goose.
Date:
[1831]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand colored engraving ; 40 x 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
The Royal Regatta : a game.
Date:
[ca. 1852?]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored lithograph ; 53 x 73 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
The royal pastime of cupid, or, Entertaining game of the snake.
Date:
12th May 1794
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; sheet 38 x 46 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Wallis's elegant and instructive game exhibiting the wonders of nature in each quarter of the world.
Date:
1st Novr. 1818
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; 48 x 64 cm, folded to 24 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
The new game of the multiplication table.
Date:
[between 1830 and 1832]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored illustrations ; sheet 48 x 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
With love and good wishes for a happy New Year.
Date:
[1880?]
Physical Description:
1 pop-up card : color illustrations ; 15 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Numerical game]
Date:
1812
Physical Description:
2 sheets. ill. 43 x 43 cm. fold. to 10 x 10 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Yours unalterably.
Date:
[1875?]
Physical Description:
1 card : color illustrations ; 9 x 7 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The hare and the tortoise : a new game.
Date:
Novr. 5th. 1849
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored lithograph ; 43 x 54 cm, folded to 14 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Crowned heads, or, Contemporary sovereigns : an instructive game.
Date:
[ca. 1845?]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored lithograph ; 56 x 76 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
[Greeting card with movable flower].
Date:
[1850?]
Physical Description:
1 greeting card : color illustrations ; 17 x 12 cm, mounted on 21 x 16 cm manila paper.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[between 1819 and 1823]
Physical Description:
1 leaf, 6 col. plates. 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
1771
Physical Description:
fold. col. plate. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[ca. 1890?]
Physical Description:
set of ca. 200 rolled slips of paper ; each 35 x 75 mm, in box 9 x 14 x 4 cm. + 1 pair of metal tweezers
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[late 19th c.?]
Physical Description:
1 tangram puzzle (7 pieces) : wood ; 10 x 10 cm., in wallet 17 x 11 cm. + 1 pamphlet (17 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
E. R. T
Date:
1868
Physical Description:
1 volume ([2], 11, [1] pages) ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
circa 1870
Physical Description:
2 sheets : paper, pen and black ink ; 28 cm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
January 2nd 1809
Physical Description:
1 game (1 board) : paper mounted on linen, color ; 53 x 65 cm, folded to 18 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
F. Ad. Richter & Co
Date:
[between 1891 and 1900]
Physical Description:
[8], 42 pages : illustrations ; 84 x 79 mm, in box 92 x 92 x 15 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Peacock, W. (William), -1910
Date:
[between 1875 and 1909]
Physical Description:
1 jigsaw puzzle (85 pieces) : paper on wood, hand colored ; puzzle 36 x 48 cm, in box 5 x 20 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
No cover image available
Date:
[18--]
Physical Description:
1 game (instruction sheet, cards) : paper, col. ; in box, 22 x 14 x 2 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[ca. 1950?]
Physical Description:
6 cards : col. ill. ; 10 x 14 cm + in paper envelope.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. Robert V. Tauxe, Yale BA 1975, Yale MPH 1980
No cover image available
Date:
[1840?]
Physical Description:
1 print : hand-colored lithograph ; 14 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hilda Lease Jay.
No cover image available
Date:
[1850?]
Physical Description:
1 game (36 cubes) : wood, color ; in box 18 x 18 x 5 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[1799]
Physical Description:
109 prints : aquatint
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
84 pieces (ports.) 9 x 7 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[between 1830 and 1834]
Physical Description:
broadside. ill. 51 x 38 cm., fold. to 14 x 10 cm. & booklet (15, [1] p.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
19 cards. ill. 9 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[circa 1855?]
Physical Description:
1 toy ; in box 25 x 20 x 4 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[between 1876 and 1917]
Physical Description:
16 pages ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus
No cover image available
Date:
ca. 1845]
Physical Description:
[1] sheet : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Rushout, Anne, approximately 1768–1849
Date:
circa 1776-circa 1832
Physical Description:
1 v. (270 p.) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
2012
Physical Description:
[24] pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman
No cover image available
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
1 sheet 50 x 68 cm. fold. to 17 x 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
1979
Physical Description:
[55] cards : col. ill. ; 12 cm. + pamphlet (22 p.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Andrew Jones
No cover image available
Date:
[1881]
Physical Description:
8, [2] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Constance Clement
No cover image available
Date:
[ca. 1845?]
Physical Description:
1 game (48 pieces) ; in box 17 x 13 x 4 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[ca. 1885]
Physical Description:
1 optical instrument ; 9 x 8 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[between 1876 and 1917]
Physical Description:
16 pages ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus
No cover image available
Creator:
Gaskell, Anna
Date:
[2001]
Physical Description:
1 peepshow ; 16 x 18 x 2 cm (closed), expanding to 16 x 18 x 23 cm (open)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Miko McGinty, Yale BA 1993, MFA 1998, in honor of Elisabeth Fairman.
No cover image available
Creator:
Morden, Robert, approximately 1650–1703
Physical Description:
52 maps : ill. ; on playing cards 9.5 x 5.5 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Green, James, 1771–1834
Date:
[1817?]
Physical Description:
5 sheets : maps ; each sheet 50 x 62 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[1851]
Physical Description:
1 set of puzzle blocks (60 pieces) : wood ; in wooden box 28 x 19 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[1868?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration ; 40 x 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Newton, T
Date:
[1810]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; sheet 57 x 45 cm, folded to 19 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
1830
Physical Description:
xxi, 185 p., 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : 1 illustration ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer
No cover image available
Creator:
Varley, Delvalle Lowry
Date:
[1818]
Physical Description:
3 pts. plates. 10 x 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
91 pieces. col. ill. 2-21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[ca. 1950?]
Physical Description:
[13] cards : col. ill. ; 10 x 14 cm + in paper envelope.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. Robert V. Tauxe, Yale BA 1975, Yale MPH 1980
No cover image available
Creator:
Thomas De La Rue & Company
Date:
[187-?]
Physical Description:
1 game (1 folded board, 30 movable paper chess pieces) : ill. ; 15 x 19 cm, folded to 15 x 10 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[between 1840 and 1850?]
Physical Description:
4 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Reynard, Francis
Date:
1817]
Physical Description:
col. plate. 39 x 47 cm., fold. to 17 x 11 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[1824?]
Physical Description:
11 pts. in case. col. ill. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
1 game ; 48 x 62 cm. fold. to 22 x 13 cm. & booklet (12 p.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
between 1840 and 1860?
Physical Description:
1 printing plate : copper ; 22 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[1720]
Physical Description:
52 playing cards : illustrations ; each card 9.7 x 6.4 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
approximately 1820?
Physical Description:
36 playing cards : illustrations ; 93 x 70 mm, in box 100 x 75 x 25 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[ca. 1835?]
Physical Description:
1 set of building blocks (54 pieces) : wood ; various sizes, in wooden box 18 x 23 x 3 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[ca. 1837]
Physical Description:
1 sheet. 51 x 49 cm., fold. to 18 x 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Engelbrecht, Martin, 1684–1756
Date:
[Germany],
Physical Description:
1 peep show (6 prints mounted on cardboard) : hand-colored etchings ; sheets 10 x 16, 12 cm deep when spaced
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[between 1876 and 1917]
Physical Description:
16 pages ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus
No cover image available
Date:
ca. 1840?
Physical Description:
12 cards : illustrations ; each 38 x 75 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
16--]
Physical Description:
52 cards. ill. (ports.) 11 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
1829
Physical Description:
1 peepshow (7 panels) ; 12 x 14 cm, expanding to 62 cm (open)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[1854?]
Physical Description:
[3] leaves : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 12 x 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Spooner, William, active 1831–1854
Date:
[ca. 1838?]
Physical Description:
1 print : lithograph, hand colored ; image 15 x 19 cm, on mount 23 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[1820]
Physical Description:
1 game ; 48 x 61 cm., fold. to 21 x 12 cm. & booklet (35 p.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[ca. 1840]
Physical Description:
1 col. sheet. 66 x 51 cm. fold. to 18 x 14 cm. & booklet (20 p.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[18--]
Physical Description:
1 game (82 pieces) : lead and cloth, col. ; in box, 19 x 30 x 5 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
2005
Physical Description:
10 leaves : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger Pattenden.