Vintage board games - Adrian Seville

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• The printed board game reached new heights of beauty and ingenuity during the nineteenth century.
• The century began with a golden age for upmarket board games, finely engraved and often with glowing hand-colour.
• But these expensive games faced competition from the new process of lithography and by the end of the century mass produced games from the steam-press were flooding a European-wide market.
• There were games on almost every conceivable theme, whether on serious subjects like geography or history, or on the crazes of the moment.
• The games often relied on dice or a numbered spinning top called a teetotum, with no choice of move.
• Nowadays, the fascination of these games lies not in playing them but in seeing how they reflect the specific cultures of different times and places.
• Other games were designed for gambling, with a winner scooping the pool.
• Some, though, were `mind games', where serious thought was required.
• This book presents examples of all these genres.
• It is interesting to see how the focus of the games changed over the century for example, how what had been largely a gambling game for adults became a children's game.