The peacock at home a game.

ID 9964
Title The peacock at home a game.
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Volumes 1
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Date of Publication 1835
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Imprint Nichols
Colophon
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Location of Printing London GB
Format Unknown ()
Length (cm) 14
Width (cm) 19
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  • Shefrin, Jill. Ingenious contrivances, 42
Notes Game based on C. Dorset's poem "The Peacock at Home"; Includes: a sheet of rules; a set of ivory counters; 10 cards of invitation; 4 instructional cards; 24 hand-coloured pictorial cards, each of one bird; and a hand-coloured lithographed decorative sheet displaying the title of the game with the peacock and thirteen of his guests; Each player holds pictorial cards which are surrendered as the dealer turns up the invitation card for that bird. The game is won by the first player to have all her guests invited.
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Dorset, Catherine Anne Turner. The peacock at home a game.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 9964, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/9964. Accessed 2024-04-20.

Dorset, Catherine Anne Turner. The peacock at home a game. London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1835.

Dorset , C.A.T. (1835). The peacock at home a game. London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son.

Dorset, Catherine A. T. The peacock at home a game. London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1835. 

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