LOT 65 Bowles's Royal Pastime of Cupid, or Entertaining Game of the Snake, Carington Bowles..., No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, [c.1784] MAP GAME - GAME OF THE SNAKE
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MAP GAME - GAME OF THE SNAKE
Bowles's Royal Pastime of Cupid, or Entertaining Game of the Snake, engraved sheet with spiral track in the form of a snake with 63 divisions incorporating 20 illustrations, rules of the game printed either side, within decorative border, partial loss to two words of title caption, soiled with small loss at central fold, laid down on old brown paper, 375 x 460mm., Carington Bowles..., No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, [c.1784]
|Scarce edition of the "Game of the Snake", in which players negotiate a board illustrated with figures of cupids and obstacles symbolic of the rewards and risks of love, the winner being the first to arrive in the "delightful Garden of Cupid".
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