Lot 267
Game.- Bowles & Carver () Bowles's Royal and Entertaining Game of the Goose, hand-coloured engraved sheet, Bowles & Carver, 1818.
Hammer Price: £350
Description
Game.- Bowles & Carver, publishers. Bowles's Royal and Entertaining Game of the Goose, hand-coloured engraved sheet forming anti-clockwise spiral of 63 spaces around a central panel of rules and vignettes at corners and in some spaces including portraits of George III and Queen Charlotte, mounted on linen, c.550 x 440mm., contemporary ink inscription to "The Miss Bakers. Given them by their Affecte. Governess Louisa de ?Challet" at head of sheet, a little soiled and creased, folded in four, [cf.Whitehouse p.55], Bowles & Carver, [water-marked ?1818].
⁂ A later version of one of the earliest table games, mentioned in Oliver Goldsmith's Deserted Village of 1770.
Description
Game.- Bowles & Carver, publishers. Bowles's Royal and Entertaining Game of the Goose, hand-coloured engraved sheet forming anti-clockwise spiral of 63 spaces around a central panel of rules and vignettes at corners and in some spaces including portraits of George III and Queen Charlotte, mounted on linen, c.550 x 440mm., contemporary ink inscription to "The Miss Bakers. Given them by their Affecte. Governess Louisa de ?Challet" at head of sheet, a little soiled and creased, folded in four, [cf.Whitehouse p.55], Bowles & Carver, [water-marked ?1818].
⁂ A later version of one of the earliest table games, mentioned in Oliver Goldsmith's Deserted Village of 1770.
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