Holdings Information

Bibliographic Record Display

• Title:Parlor game.
  
• Production:Great Britain, ca. 1831.
  
• Physical Description:18 sheets ; folded to 6 x 6 cm
  

• Yale Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: GV1199 .P375 1831 Flat
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
    

   
• Summary:Manuscript parlor game, on 18 nested sheets of folded paper in assorted colors. A hand-written phrase is written in black ink on the exterior surface of each folded sheet, for example "What do you think it can be?"; "Oh it requires the patience of Job"; Dear me, I wish I knew what it was"; and "I have a great mind to throw it into the fire." The small piece of paper at the center bears the phrase "Please to fold it all up again."
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Subjects:Amusements--Great Britain.
  Great Britain--Social life and customs.
  
• Genre/Form:Games.
  Recreations.