[WALLIS, EDWARD]. Picturesque Round Game of the Produce & Manufactures, of the Counties of England & Wales. London: Edward Wallis, c.1830.
Folding map of England and Wales, dissected and laid on linen as issued, 660 x 500mm, aquatint with original hand-colour. Condition: VERY GOOD. Light toning, small crease to bottom right corner, without the slipcase. A rare and well-preserved example.
Notes: Scarce separately issued folding pictorial map of England and Wales to be used as a game board for Victorian amusement; an educational ''goose game'', in which players race counter-clockwise around England and Wales, starting in the Thames Estuary and ending at London, through 151 places. It was intended for use as a Children's board game and includes hundreds of vignettes, as many as seven per county, illustrating the main features of the area, both commercial and topographical, in each of the Counties in England and Wales. First published between 1826 and 1837 according to F.R.B. Whitehouse in Table Games. The British Library has the 1844 edition. A charming, well-preserved example, lacking the slipcase.
