Walker's Geographical tours, . for the amusement and instruction of little tarry-at-home travellers. Originally published to accompany the author's Games, and now presented to his young friends in a separate form. Accompanied with maps.
John Walker (1759 - 1830)
Category
Books
Date
1822
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 3091495
Summary
Bibliographic description
ill., maps; . 46, 66, 84, 69, [5] p., [4] folded leaves of plates: . 8vo.. First issued as a form of board game in which the towns described in the text are numbered and connected by the 'tour'; players move around the tour by means of spinning a totum. Provenance: Inscribed in ink on verso of front free-endpaper 'Unread'. Entered in 1906 typescript Stourhead Library catalogue, p. 597, A.3.. Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, marbled-paper boards, gold-tooled spine, red spine-label.
Makers and roles
John Walker (1759 - 1830) William Darton, Jr (1781 - 1854), engraver (printmaker)