The combat with the giant :: printing | YCBA Collections Search

Title:

The combat with the giant : a new invented and entertaining game.

Published / Created:

London : Published ... by Champante & Whitrow, Jewry Street, Aldgate, September 1st, 1796.

Physical Description:

1 game : hand-colored engraving ; 40 x 40 cm, folded to 13 x 13 cm

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
GV1199 .C66 1796
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Three-Dimensional Artifacts

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.

BAC: British Art Center copy includes publisher's original slipcase.

Subject Terms:

Liman, Ellen and Arthur -- Provenance.

Form/Genre:

Games -- Great Britain. | Recreations -- Great Britain. | Board games. | Card games. | Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1796.

Contributors:

Champante and Whitrow | Collection of Ellen and Arthur Liman (Yale Center for British Art)