The Royal Pastime of Cupid: Two Early English Association Copies (original) (raw)

2017

Abstract

This paper will review twelve examples of The Royal pastime of Cupid or the Entertaining Game of the Snake, known to be published in Britain, suggesting revised publication dates in three instances. The R. H. Laurie print in the VA however, it has not been possible to locate Sayer’s 1750 print. Three examples published in Glasgow ca. 1810–1830 by James Lumsden & Son are known. One, a chromolithograph, is included in Adrian Seville’s 2016 exhibition catalogue, The Royal Game of the Goose: 400 Years of Printed Board Games. Several examples dated “1794” are known: the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera in the Bodleian Library has a Laurie & Whittle print (the imprint of which states “published 12th May 1794”) together with another “printed and sold by William Dicey at his printing office in Bow Church-Yard London”. A third, attributed to Laurie & Whittle, bears the imprint “Printed & sould by John Garrett at his shop next ye stayers of ye Royall Exchange in Cornhill” (Whitehou...

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