Yale Center for British Art

Title:

Arithmetical lottery : a new amusing and instructive game of exercises in multiplication.

Published / Created:

[London? : s.n.], [18--].

Physical Description:

1 game (instruction sheet, cards) : paper, col. ; in box, 22 x 14 x 2 cm.

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
GV1199 A74 Flat A
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Three-Dimensional Artifacts

Notes:

In box, as issued.

Title from instruction sheet.

Label mounted on inside of box lid reads: "Varty & Cox, publishers, booksellers, stationers, map and printsellers, 3 Adelaide Street, Strand, London, W.C. (late Roake & Varty)"

If Varty & Cox published this game, it could date from 1847-1855. Roake & Varty in business 1831-1847; in business as Varty & Owen by 1855.--cf. Todd, W. Directory of printers; Hodson's Booksellers, publishers, stationers directory 1855 (1972).

Includes instruction sheet, 8 large cards with numbers & 64 small cards with pictures. Game is played rather like bingo.

Fairman, Elisabeth R. Pleasures and pastimes, 49

Exhibition History:

Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)

Subject Terms:

Varty & Cox -- Publisher. | Arithmetic -- Study and teaching. | Multiplication -- Study and teaching. | Educational games -- Specimens.

Form/Genre:

Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- [18--]. | Games -- Great Britain. | Recreations -- Great Britain.