Nieuw Robinson Crusoe spel.

Format:

Image

Contributor:

Zender, J.

Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund.

Language:

Dutch

Subjects (All):

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Robinson Crusoe.

Defoe, Daniel.

Board games--Netherlands--19th century--Specimens.

Board games.

Goose (Game).

Literary recreations.

Netherlands.

Genre:

Specimens.

Games -- Netherlands -- Dordrecht -- 19th century.

Publishers' advertisements -- Netherlands -- Dordrecht -- 19th century.

Board games (game sets)

Prints.

Puzzles and games.

Physical Description:

1 print (board game) : color ; 41 x 52 cm

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : J. Zender, [1830?]

Summary:

"Large woodcut of a playing board for a Robinson Crusoe-game, with caption, and rules printed around the large square central view of Robinson on his isle, his ship sinking in the sea in the distance, and 18 double playing fields, one with a picture of Robinson and the other with a place for the markers with dice at either side, all finely coloured by hand."--Description from Acanthus catalog.

Notes:

Title from caption at head of sheet.

Imprint date supplied from bookseller's description (Acanthus catalog). Buijnsters & Buijnsters-Smets give: 1829.

Hand-colored central illustration and playing fields.

Publisher's advertisement at end of text of rules.

Rules based on those for the game of Goose. Cf. bookseller's description (Acanthus catalog).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund.

Penn Libraries copy has bookseller's printed description (Acanthus catalog) laid in.

Penn Libraries copy has a few tears in sheet mended on verso.

Cited in:

Buijnsters & Buijnsters-Smets. Papertoys, p. 274

OCLC:

903425395