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• Title:The road to the temple of honour and fame : an instructive and entertaining game.
  
• Publication:London : Published ... by J. Harris ..., May 20, 1811.
  
• Manufacture: London : H. Bryer, printer
  
• Physical Description:1 game : hand-colored engraving ; sheet 59 x 43 cm, folded to 20 x 11 cm
  
• Links:View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: GV1199 .R63 1811
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
    

   
• Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy includes original booklet and slipcase. Slipcase autographed: F. [?] L. Barnicoat.
  
• Notes:Title from game board.
  Title on case (in hand-col. etching mounted on case): The Road to the temple of Honour and Fame : a new game. "Published Dec. 26, 1810, by J. Harris."
  Players' manual (15 p. ; 16 cm.)--has t.p. reading: Rules and directions for playing the game, A Road to the temple of Honour and Fame : shewing that the most exalted situations in life may be gained by good conduct and attention to learning. London : Printed for J. Harris, 1810.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• References:Liman, E. Georgian and Victorian board games, pages 40-43
  Whitehouse, F.R.B. Table games of Georgian and Victorian days, page 49
  
• Subjects:Conduct of life.
  Educational games.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Barnicoat, F. L.--Autograph.
  Liman, Ellen and Arthur--Provenance.
  
• Genre/Form:Games--Great Britain.
  Recreations--Great Britain.
  Board games.
  Etchings--Hand-colored--1811.
  
• Also listed under:Bryer, Henry, printer.
  J. Harris (Firm), publisher.
  Collection of Ellen and Arthur Liman (Yale Center for British Art).