A study of Shakespeare : an instructive game / card game copyrighted and compiled by the Shakespeare Club, Camden, Maine.
1899
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Title
A study of Shakespeare : an instructive game / card game copyrighted and compiled by the Shakespeare Club, Camden, Maine.
Published
Camden, Maine : The Shakespeare Club, [between 1899 and 1922?]
Description
60 cards ; 10 x 7 cm each (housed in 11 x 8 x 3 cm box) + 2 sheets (folded)
Associated name
Summary
Card game (based on the popular game "Authors") of trivia questions about Shakespeare's plays and characters. First produced by the Shakespeare Club of Camden, Maine in 1897 (date was printed on the cover of the box). The game went into at least six editions, and was sold (price 50 cents) as late as the 1920s.
Note
Includes directions and page of testimonials.
Illustration of the Camden Mountains on the back of each card.
Box does not include date, suggesting this is a later printing than 1897. An accompanying page of testimonials quotes a review of the game in Outlook magazine (volume 61, number 1, April 15 1899, page 896). Another issue of Outlook from 1922 contains an advertisement for the game.
Illustration of the Camden Mountains on the back of each card.
Box does not include date, suggesting this is a later printing than 1897. An accompanying page of testimonials quotes a review of the game in Outlook magazine (volume 61, number 1, April 15 1899, page 896). Another issue of Outlook from 1922 contains an advertisement for the game.
Genre/form
Place of creation/publication
United States -- Maine -- Camden, -- publication place.
Call number
Sh.Misc. 363
Folger-specific note
"Maine" misprinted as "Naine" on testimonial sheet, manuscript correction in ink.
Folger accession
No case or accession number present