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Title(s)
The combat with the giant : a new invented and entertaining game.
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Published/Created
London : Published ... by Champante & Whitrow, Jewry Street, Aldgate, September 1st, 1796.
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Physical Description
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; 40 x 40 cm, folded to 13 x 13 cm
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
GV1199 .C66 1796
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
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Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
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Notes
Title from game board.
"Accompanied with a box containing a teetotum and counters."--Engraved title label on slipcase.
"This game is almost unique among the very old ones in that it is not a race game, but instead is played with an ordinary pack of 52 playing cards from which the tens have been removed, making 48."--Whitehouse.
Liman, E. Georgian and Victorian board games, page 88
Whitehouse, F.R.B. Table games of Georgian and Victorian day, pages 58-62.
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Subject Terms
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Form/Genre
Board games. | Card games. | Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1796. | Games -- Great Britain. | Recreations -- Great Britain.
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