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The majestic game of the Asiatic ostrich.
Date:
[approximately 1825]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet : hand-colored engraving, on linen ; 51 x 41 cm, folded (in slipcase) 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
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
L'orient, or, The Indian travellers : a geographical and historical game.
Date:
[1846]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : hand-colored lithograph ; 56 x 75 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 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
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 Mars and the L'Hercule, April 21, 1798 : a transparent print / R.M.
Creator:
R. M
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
1 print on wove paper : aquatint ; plate mark 21 x 21 cm, on sheet 44 x 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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
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
Perspectivische Ansicht des Tunnels unter der Themse. Vue perspective du tunnel sous la Tamise.
Date:
ca. 1825]
Physical Description:
7 col. plates. 23 x 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Myriorama. Second series, Italian scenery / I. Clark delt.
Creator:
Clark, John Heaviside, approximately 1770–1863
Date:
[1824]
Physical Description:
24 cards : aquatint ; 20 x 7 cm in box 23 x 16 x 3 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Game of the star-spangled banner, or Emigrants to the United States.
Date:
[between 1842 and 1845]
Physical Description:
1 sheet. 69 x 51 cm., fold. to 18 x 14 cm. & booklet (iv, [5]-16 p.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
To the Queen's private apartments.
Date:
1843]
Physical Description:
[1] sheet : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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
The noble game of the elephant and castle, or Travelling in Asia.
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
1 game ; 51 x 41 cm. fold. to 17 x 14 cm. & booklet (viii, [9]-84 p. 14 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Teleorama].
Date:
[approximately 1825?]
Physical Description:
1 peepshow (7 sheets) : hand-colored lithographs ; 11 x 14 cm, 52 cm in depth (extended)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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
Panoramacopia. Designed by T.T. Dales, drawing master.
Creator:
Dales, T. T
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
18 col. plates. 23 cm.
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 family coach. A merry round game.
Date:
[1851]
Physical Description:
45 pieces (incl. col. ill.) 9 cm. and booklet (7, [1] p.) 14 cm. in case 11 x 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Transparent prints].
Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:
[1799]
Physical Description:
6 prints : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets 52 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The cottage of content; or, Right roads and wrong ways. A humourous game.
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
1 sheet. 57 x 43 cm., fold. to 21 x 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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
The royal and entertaining Game of the goose.
Date:
[between 1761 and 1794]
Physical Description:
1 sheet. 49 x 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Happy families [game] : a new and most diverting game for juveniles : forty-four grotesque characters, beautifully colored.
Date:
[186-?]
Physical Description:
1 card game (44 cards) : col. ill. ; in box 10 x 8 x 3 cm. + 1 instruction card (93 x 65 mm.), 1 instruction sheet (1 folded sheet ([4] p. ; 19 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Toy soldier paper dolls.
Creator:
Sayers, Henry, 1819 or 1820–1891
Date:
ca. 1830
Physical Description:
245 toy soldier paper dolls ; in box 33 x 27 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[The Popish Plot]
Date:
[1679?]
Physical Description:
52 cards : ill. ; 90 x 54 mm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Many happy returns of the day.
Date:
[approximately 1880]
Physical Description:
1 card : color illustrations ; 10 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
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
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
Fantascope : 2nd series / by T.T. Bury.
Creator:
Bury, T. T. (Thomas Talbot), 1811–1877
Date:
1833
Physical Description:
6 phenakistoscope discs ; each 25 cm, in case 26 x 26 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
Aladdin, or, The Wonderful lamp : a grand romantic spectacle, in two acts : 8 plates of characters, 15 plates of scenes, 4 plates of wings, total 27 : supplied only for Pollock's characters & scenes.
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
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
Hyakunin isshu karuta.
Date:
late 18th century?
Physical Description:
200 playing cards
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
May each returning birthday find you very much improved : then you'll grow wise and good and kind and be by all beloved.
Date:
[approximately 1860]
Physical Description:
1 card ; 40 x 120 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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
Peep egg viewer of Weymouth, Dorset.
Date:
ca. 1855
Physical Description:
1 item : painted alabaster and glass ; 62 mm in diameter, 110 mm long
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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
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
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
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
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
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
La Fontaine in the game of the goose.
Date:
[ca. 1810]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : ill. ; 37 x 43 cm. folded to 19 x 12 cm. + 1 booklet ([8] leaves ; 12 cm)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Please to imagine lady fair, If you my passion truly share, that in these gloves our hands combine, Mine in yours, love, and yours in mind.
Date:
[approximately 1860]
Physical Description:
1 folded card ; 30 x 110 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sallis's comic play grammar.
Creator:
Sallis, William, 1782–1865
Date:
[ca. 1850?]
Physical Description:
1 card game (41 cards) : illustrations ; each card 9.8 x 7 cm, in box 10.5 x 7.3 x 3 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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
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