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David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
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David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
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Author:
J. & C. Walker (Firm)
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Date:
1810
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Short Title:
Walker's new geographical game: exhibiting a tour through Europe
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Walker's new geographical game: exhibiting a tour through Europe
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Publisher:
W. & T. Darton
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Publisher Location:
London
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Type:
Game Map
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46
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51
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Note:
Copper engraving hand colored map. An educational cartographic race game. Includes 133 stops en route with a brief historical and geographical description. Shows major cities, roads and rivers. Relief shown pictorially.
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Copper engraving hand colored map. An educational cartographic race game. Includes 133 stops en route with a brief historical and geographical description. Shows major cities, roads and rivers. Relief shown pictorially.
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Europe
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Full Title:
Walker's new geographical game: exhibiting a tour through Europe. Published for the author May 1st 1810 and sold by W. & T. Darton, Holborn Hill London.
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Walker's new geographical game: exhibiting a tour through Europe. Published for the author May 1st 1810 and sold by W. & T. Darton, Holborn Hill London.
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List No:
13190.002
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13190.002
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Series No:
2
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Engraver or Printer:
W. & T. Darton
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Publication Author:
J. & C. Walker (Firm)
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Pub Date:
1810
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1810
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Pub Title:
Walker's new geographical game: exhibiting a tour through Europe. Published for the author May 1st 1810 and sold by W. & T. Darton, Holborn Hill London.
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Walker's new geographical game: exhibiting a tour through Europe. Published for the author May 1st 1810 and sold by W. & T. Darton, Holborn Hill London.
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Pub Note:
Copper engraving hand colored map, 46x51, mounted on cloth, folded to 17 x 11.5, in marbled slipcase 17 x 12, with engraved label illustrates sailor seated in foreground gesturing at Arab in robes smoking water pipe. Accompanied by rules and directions booklet, 24 pages, with same title. Printed and sold by W. M. Darton Jun. 1810. Map shows major cities, roads and rivers. Relief shown pictorially. This is an educational cartographic race game in which the players travel around Europe learning as they do, with London as the starting point and Athens as their goal. Includes 133 stops en route with a brief historical and geographical description. "Two or three persons may amuse themselves with this agreeable pastime; and, if a double set of counters and pyramids are purchased, six may play at it." P. [2] of booklet. All 133 potential stops en route are supplied with a brief historical and geographical description. There are also hazards, which are mostly of an improving kind. For example, if landing on Milan the player misses three turns ‘to see the immense library of books.’ Some are more ambiguous. The game was published during the Napoleonic Wars, at a time when conventional travel on the continent - including the Grand Tour - had been out of reach for even wealthy Britons for a generation. The Peninsular War was at its height, and any player landing on Lisbon misses four turns ‘to take a view of the British Army’. The Dartons were Quakers (William Darton senior joined the Society of Friends in 1777), and their prejudices occasionally break out unexpectedly. After noting a great deal in Lisbon’s favor, the text continues: ‘The religion of the Portuguese is Catholic; they are bigots and somewhat superstitious’. Moral instruction includes advocating the traditional Quaker rejection of war. Any player landing on Copenhagen (114, towards the end of the tour with victory in sight) is reminded that the city has recently been bombarded twice by the British - by Nelson in 1801 and Lord Cathcart in 1807 - despoiling it of its beauties and causing ‘considerable execution’: ‘Here go back to London, no. 1, and endeavour to live in peace with Denmark’. Denmark was ostensibly neutral (if under enormous pressure to cooperate with France), and British concerns about retaining access to the Baltic and denying the French access to the Danish fleet were evidently insufficient justifications in the author’s mind. William Darton junior and his son Thomas briefly worked together between 1806 and June 1810, and both are included in the imprint on the map. The imprint on the title-page of the rules is that of William Darton alone, but the contents support the 1810 date it carries and it was presumably issued later in the year. Unlike some educational games, which confine themselves to dry lists of dates and manufactures, the descriptions are firmly rooted in the current affairs of the day. The description of Amiens refers to the short-lived peace treaty of 1802, after which ‘hostilities again commenced, and have continued without intermission to the present time’, and Napoleon is referred to explicitly as the current owner of Versailles. The description of Paris is at first glance more puzzling. It refers to the events of 1793-4 - specifically the executions of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and the end of the Terror (‘humanity shrinks from the retrospection of barbarities committed under a delusive idea of liberty’) as having taken place seventeen years before. However, ‘France is again a monarchy, and her capital the scene of revelry to many crowned heads of Europe’. These words could easily have been written in 1814-15, but there is no mention of either of Napoleon’s abdications, and in any case from 1805 Napoleon was frequently styled ‘His Imperial and Royal Majesty, the Emperor of the French and King of Italy’. After the collapse of the fifth coalition in 1809, most of the crowned heads of Europe existed in an uneasy alliance with France and Paris was the setting for the 1810 treaty signed with Sweden; the reference to ‘revelry’ may be yet another indication of Quaker disapprobation. Stanford possesses an edition with a 34 page rule-book, dated to c. 1829. Copies of our edition in British Library, LoC, Universities of Delaware and Melbourne. OCLC 23838950.
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Copper engraving hand colored map, 46x51, mounted on cloth, folded to 17 x 11.5, in marbled slipcase 17 x 12, with engraved label illustrates sailor seated in foreground gesturing at Arab in robes smoking water pipe. Accompanied by rules and directions booklet, 24 pages, with same title. Printed and sold by W. M. Darton Jun. 1810. Map shows major cities, roads and rivers. Relief shown pictorially. This is an educational cartographic race game in which the players travel around Europe learning as they do, with London as the starting point and Athens as their goal. Includes 133 stops en route with a brief historical and geographical description. "Two or three persons may amuse themselves with this agreeable pastime; and, if a double set of counters and pyramids are purchased, six may play at it." P. [2] of booklet. All 133 potential stops en route are supplied with a brief historical and geographical description. There are also hazards, which are mostly of an improving kind. For example, if landing on Milan the player misses three turns ‘to see the immense library of books.’ Some are more ambiguous. The game was published during the Napoleonic Wars, at a time when conventional travel on the continent - including the Grand Tour - had been out of reach for even wealthy Britons for a generation. The Peninsular War was at its height, and any player landing on Lisbon misses four turns ‘to take a view of the British Army’. The Dartons were Quakers (William Darton senior joined the Society of Friends in 1777), and their prejudices occasionally break out unexpectedly. After noting a great deal in Lisbon’s favor, the text continues: ‘The religion of the Portuguese is Catholic; they are bigots and somewhat superstitious’. Moral instruction includes advocating the traditional Quaker rejection of war. Any player landing on Copenhagen (114, towards the end of the tour with victory in sight) is reminded that the city has recently been bombarded twice by the British - by Nelson in 1801 and Lord Cathcart in 1807 - despoiling it of its beauties and causing ‘considerable execution’: ‘Here go back to London, no. 1, and endeavour to live in peace with Denmark’. Denmark was ostensibly neutral (if under enormous pressure to cooperate with France), and British concerns about retaining access to the Baltic and denying the French access to the Danish fleet were evidently insufficient justifications in the author’s mind. William Darton junior and his son Thomas briefly worked together between 1806 and June 1810, and both are included in the imprint on the map. The imprint on the title-page of the rules is that of William Darton alone, but the contents support the 1810 date it carries and it was presumably issued later in the year. Unlike some educational games, which confine themselves to dry lists of dates and manufactures, the descriptions are firmly rooted in the current affairs of the day. The description of Amiens refers to the short-lived peace treaty of 1802, after which ‘hostilities again commenced, and have continued without intermission to the present time’, and Napoleon is referred to explicitly as the current owner of Versailles. The description of Paris is at first glance more puzzling. It refers to the events of 1793-4 - specifically the executions of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and the end of the Terror (‘humanity shrinks from the retrospection of barbarities committed under a delusive idea of liberty’) as having taken place seventeen years before. However, ‘France is again a monarchy, and her capital the scene of revelry to many crowned heads of Europe’. These words could easily have been written in 1814-15, but there is no mention of either of Napoleon’s abdications, and in any case from 1805 Napoleon was frequently styled ‘His Imperial and Royal Majesty, the Emperor of the French and King of Italy’. After the collapse of the fifth coalition in 1809, most of the crowned heads of Europe existed in an uneasy alliance with France and Paris was the setting for the 1810 treaty signed with Sweden; the reference to ‘revelry’ may be yet another indication of Quaker disapprobation. Stanford possesses an edition with a 34 page rule-book, dated to c. 1829. Copies of our edition in British Library, LoC, Universities of Delaware and Melbourne. OCLC 23838950.
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Pub List No:
13190.000
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Game
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Pub Height cm:
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Authors:
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