John Wallis
Biographies John Wallis (died 1818) was an English board game publisher, bookseller, map/chart seller, print seller, music seller, and cartographer. Wallis's company occupied a number of sites in London, England including: • 16 Ludgate Street (under the name "Map Warehouse") from 1775. • 13 Warwick Square (under the name "Instructive Toy Warehouse") from 1805. • 42 Skinner Street, Snow Hill – this address was mainly used by Edward Wallis when working alone or when working with his father, in those cases publishing as "Wallis and Son" or "John & Edward Wallis". • 188 The Strand – this address being used solely by John Wallis Jr.
John Wallis
Cruikshank, Isaac Robert, 1789-1856 [illustrator] · Digital Bodleian This file comes from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. This file comes from the Bodleian Libraries, a group of research libraries in Oxford University. This tag does · Public domain
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- 1818.
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- publisher, bookseller, printseller and cartographer.
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Biographies John Wallis (died 1818) was an English board game publisher, bookseller, map/chart seller, print seller, music seller, and cartographer. Wallis's company occupied a number of sites in London, England including: • 16 Ludgate Street (under the name "Map Warehouse") from 1775. • 13 Warwick Square (under the name "Instructive Toy Warehouse") from 1805. • 42 Skinner Street, Snow Hill – this address was mainly used by Edward Wallis when working alone or when working with his father, in those cases publishing as "Wallis and Son" or "John & Edward Wallis". • 188 The Strand – this address being used solely by John Wallis Jr.
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1818
John Wallis died.
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• (with Elizabeth Newbery) The New Game of Human Life, 1790
Rules of the game of ca.1790 entitled Game of human life; "This game is played in a way somewhat similar to the Geographical pastimes, but from the great variety of subjects it embraces, it may fairly be asserted that it comprehends more useful information, and more variegated amusement for youthful minds, than has hithero been accomplished by any person, whose invention has been laudably exerted
Wallis, J. (John), d. 1818 [author] Newbery, E. (Elizabeth), 1746-1821 [author] · Digital Bodleian This file comes from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. This file comes from the Bodleian Libraries, a group of research libraries in Oxford University. This tag does
Game of 1790 entitled The new game of human life; "NB. It is necessary to inform the purchaser that the totum must be marked with figures 1,2,3,4,5,6 to avoid introducing a dice box into private families, each player must spin twice, which will answer the same purpose". Has rules in centre of board; Infant; Child; Boy; Darling; Mischievous boy; Careless boy; Seditious boy; Malignant boy; Docile bo
Wallis, J. (John), d. 1818 [author] Newbery, E. (Elizabeth), 1746-1821 [author] · Digital Bodleian This file comes from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. This file comes from the Bodleian Libraries, a group of research libraries in Oxford University. This tag does
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