An arithmetical pastime : intended to infuse the rudiments of arithmetic, under the idea of amusement.
Published / Created:
London : Published ... by John Wallis, No. 16 Ludgate Street, April 19th, 1798.London : Printed by Biggs and Co., Crane-Court, Fleet-Street, for John Wallis, 16, Ludgate Street
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; 33 x 70 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and ManuscriptsGV1199 .A78 1798Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:13691590
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
Title from letterpress portion of the gamePublisher from printed label on original slipcase.Printer from letterpress.Liman, E. Georgian and Victorian board games, pages 158-161Whitehouse, F.R.B. Table games of Georgian and Victorian days, pages 33-34Selected exhibitions: "Instruction and Delight: Children's Games from the Ellen and Arthur Liman Collection" (Yale Center for British Art, 17 January-23 May, 2019).BAC: British Art Center copy includes original slipcase, with printed title label.Players learned arithmetic from tables printed in the corners of the boards and from the charts beneath the rules. The rhymes that correspond to the numbered circles provided additional moral lessons.
Exhibition History:
Instruction and Delight: Children's Games from the Ellen and Arthur Liman Collection (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 2019-May 23, 2019)
Subject Terms:
Mathematical recreations -- Juvenile literature. | Arithmetic -- Games. | Conduct of life. | Arithmetic -- Study and teaching -- Early works to 1800. | Liman, Ellen and Arthur -- Provenance.
Form/Genre:
Games -- Great Britain. | Recreations -- Great Britain. | Board games. | Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1798.
Contributors:
Wallis, J. (John), -1818, publisher. | Biggs & Co., printer.
