Yale Center for British Art
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:
Copyright Not Evaluated
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, publisher. | Collection of Ellen and Arthur Liman (Yale Center for British Art)