Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
April 1782
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 65v
Additional Source Text:
"With the rules of the said Game in the center, and underneath Invented at the Consistery in Rome, and are printed and Sold by John Overton, over against St. Sepulchers Church in London. NB John Overton lived in Charles II's Reign. This game is called in French Le Jeu de L'Oie."
Notes:
The Royall & Most Pleasant Game of Y Goose (London, N.d.), printed and sold by John Overton (1639/40–1713). The Morgan Library & Museum has a copy of this sheet, the first English board game / http://corsair.themorgan.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=295146 The copy pictured here is from the example in the Richard Ballam gift in the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
See Adrian Seville, The Royal Game of the Goose: 400 Years of Printed Board Games (New York: Grolier Club, 2016).
