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• Title:Wheeling : a new and exciting game for cyclists.
  
• Publication:London : J. Jaques & Son, [1899?]
  
• Physical Description:1 game (1 game board, 1 die, 1 cup, 4 playing pieces, 1 sheet of instructions) : illustrations ; game board 37 x 74 cm, folded to 37 x 19 cm
  

• Yale Holdings

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: GV1199.G7 W44 1899 Flat A
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
    

   
• Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy imperfect: includes only three of the tin cyclists. Games accessories are in original illustrated box.
  
• Notes:Includes a game board (with depictions of cyclists and related people and objects), a box for accessories, and a sheet of printed instructions. Accessories are a die, cup, small cards, and 4 tin cyclist playing pieces.
  The game shows many of the adventures and mishaps that cyclists could encounter.
  Date of publication inferred from an advertisement in the Oxford Times for January 13th, 1900. The game was more than likely produced for the Christmas and New Year period, 1899-1900.
  Title from printed label on box for game accessories.
  
• Variant and related titles:Title on outside of game board: Wheeling, a game for cyclists
  
• Format:Visual Material
• References:Collector's guide to games and puzzles. London : Grange Books, 1997, page 42
  
• Subjects:Cycling--Great Britain.
  
• Genre/Form:Games--Great Britain.
  Recreations--Great Britain.
  Board games.
  Chromolithographs--1899.
  
• Also listed under:Jaques and Son (London, England), publisher.