A Brief Discourse on Eighteenth Century Games is our best-selling book! It features easy to understand rules for 19 popular 18th-century games including; Dominoes, Draughts (checkers), Fox & Geese, Going to Boston, Hazard, Laugh & Lay Down, the Mill, Quinze, Snip, Snap, Snorem, Tic-tac-toe, Whist and many more!
Each game features historial notes, complete play instructions and suggestions for making your own game pieces and boards--including how to make a papier mache dice box.
Two additional games and a color cover (taken from an original piece of marbeled paper) have been added to this new edition!
GREAT FAMILY FUN!
A Brief Discourse on Eighteenth Century Games
By M. Richard Tully ISBN 1-893832-13-9
5-1/2 x 8-1/2, 26 pp., Bibliography
