The Book of Parlour Games

Date

1853

Identifier

Special Collections GV1471 BP98

Publisher

Philadelphia: Peck & Bliss

Abstract

The image on this first American edition of Catherine Waterman’s classic Book of Parlour Games looks like a 19th century, pre-Civil War version of Twister, but is in fact Blind-man’s Bluff. Publishers Peck and Bliss must have issued this work in variant cloth colours, as evidenced by other copies for sale on various web book sites; two being salmon-coloured, and green. The ‘Bluff’ image on this faded blue cloth cover is unsigned, but it has been attributed to the Irish-born John Freely, an engraver who settled in New York about the 1840s.

Files

Cab 15 Parlour Games.jpg

Citation

[Catherine H. Waterman], “The Book of Parlour Games,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed December 26, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/7380.