Books+ Search Results
The bird-catcher : a merry round game for the table or the fireside
Title
The bird-catcher : a merry round game for the table or the fireside.
Publication
London : William Spooner, 1857.
Physical Description
1 game (12 cards) : hand-colored lithographs ; each card 9 x 7 cm, in wallet 11 x 15 cm
12 pages ; 13 cm
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center copy complete with 12 cards, booklet, and wallet.
Notes
Title from title page of booklet.
Issued in a cloth-covered wallet, with illustrated title label on front cover.
Summary
Includes 12 hand-colored cards depicting a turkey, lapwing, goose, jackdaw, sparrow, duck, cock, starling, jay, owl, lark, and parrot, each with a distinctive call printed beneath (e.g., "Trilling! Trilling!" for the lark). The object is for players to imitate the call of his or her assigned bird when their bird is called out in the story given on pages [7]-15 of the accompanying booklet. Players who fail face a fine, or have their bird trapped or killed.
Format
Other
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 14, 2019
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Games - Great Britain.
Recreations - Great Britain.
Card games.
Lithographs - Hand-colored - 1857.
Also listed under
Bookmark As
Citation
