£260
Walis (John Publisher); 'Wallis's Tour Through England and Wales, A New Geographical Pastime, 24th December 1794, an engraved board game map with contemporary wash colouring, sectionalised into sixteen and laid onto linen, with two columns of rules and town descriptions to left and right margins, approx. 520mm x 670mm, in a contemporary card slipcase with a decorative publisher's printed label to the upper board, an early board game requiring the players to move counters around the map to 'visit' various towns and cities.
Provenance; The Alan Winning Collection of Antiquarian Maps, Books and Atlases. Beginning in the 1970’s with an interest in the 19th Century development of the railway network and the County Maps of this period that charted it, Alan expanded his academic interest into good early printed maps, town plans, travel guides, books and atlases and has been adding to his collection over the past 50 years.
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