Description

[004356] [Board Game] The Royal Game of British Sovereigns Exhibiting the Most Remarkable Events in Each Reign from Egbert to George 3rd. No Place: No Publisher, Unknown. 8vo. Card Covers. Board Game. Good. Single sided hand coloured sectionalised game, approximately 610mm x 465mm in size, in the original card slipcase, but without the instructional booklet, n.d. but c.1820, no publisher or place, but published by Edward and John Wallis in London

Some light browning and surface soiling, a couple of spots of foxing, a couple of sections have small creases to edges or corners, slightly frayed to extremities, but generally fairly bright. The paper covering the slipcase is browned and chipped with some loss mainly to bottom corners, a former owner has written something indistinctly to the foot of the slipcase in ink

The vignette title label is hand coloured

The four corner pieces represent King John signing the Magna Carta, King William Granting the Bill of Rights, the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, and the Battle of Trafalgar

See Georgian and Victorian Board Games: The Liman Collection, pages 96-101 and Whitehouse, Table Games of Georgian and Victorian Days, pages 25-26, noting the existence of later editions with three spaces added