Beschreibung:

Anthropomorphic map cards. Skits, A Game of the Shires, London: Jaques & Son, circa 1900, 80 cards (complete), comprising 40 numbered county map cards, and 40 accompanying cards with each county pictured as a person, animal, or object, each with verse, some light spotting and a few marks, and no. 25 (Monmouthsire map) with vertical crease to right-hand side, but edges crisp, pale green versos, 76 x 57mm, lacking 4pp. rule leaflet (supplied in facsimile), contained in original cardboard box with pictorial label on front, some wear to edges, with one hinge splitting, and top edge detached on 3 sides (Qty: 1) Extremely rare. With verses such as: 'Dear Cantabs, old Sambo's our brother,/So every harsh thought we should smother;/Though dark his complexion/He votes at th'election;/Then let us all love one another' and 'What a boon is a notch on the nose/Where the arch of the spectacles goes;/This Staffordshire belle/Its convenience can tell,/For her pince-nez ne'er loses its pose'.