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1915) version of the game that’s essentially complete, accompanied by an advertising flyer, which curator Julie Melby has.īoth versions of the game board are the same size: fully opening out to 49 x 58 cm. Perhaps this is because the mainspring of book’s plot is a bet?) But Princeton’s Graphic Arts Collection has a later (ca. (Dice thus make a somewhat unusual appearance in a children’s game of this era, in lieu of a teetotum spinner - dice generally being shunned in children’s activities games for being associated with gambling and the unsavory world of vice. 1Unfortunately, the Cotsen copy of the the game arrived without the illustrated box it originally came in, six little hand-painted lead playing pieces (modeled on characters in the novel: Phileas Fogg, his servant Passepartout, etc.), currency tokens, dice, and dice cup. But I think a 50+ year run of publication and re-publication certainly suggests a popular item!Ĭotsen’s game board seems to be a relatively early version, based on the form of the title, the printer’s dates, and particularly a posted online.

(Verne’s novel first appeared in print in 1872.) With children’s books and games, it’s always hard to know how much items’ sales connote their actual appeal to children themselves, since adults were generally the ones making the purchases. “Très amusant” Description and rules of the game.Cotsen’s game-board seems to be one of at least 8 different versions of the game issued by various publishers between 18, an apparent testament to successful sales and ongoing popularity with children and/or grown-ups. After 1900, another Roches Frères published in Avignon until 1911 or so - maybe the firm moved? (Research also turned up a third, earlier firm named “Roches Frères,” this one publishing in New Orleans from about 1813 into the early 1820s, presumably a different entity altogether, but so far I can’t say so definitely). I’m still looking for information about the Paris firm Roches Frères, but the they seem to have been active in Paris from the 1880s through 1900, based on the dates of other of their publications cataloged by other libraries. Roches Frères has added the imprint of their Paris printing house on the bottom left of the board, in the white margin, but it’s a little hard to see in the above photo (a better view is in a photo below). 1880?) – Cotsen new acquisition.Cotsen’s version of the game-board isn’t itself titled, but the caption title I used to catalog the item comes from the accompanying four-page printed instruction and rule booklet. Game Board for “Le Voyage Autour du Monde en 80 jours: D’apres le Roman de Jules Verne: Jeu de Société” by Roches Frères (Paris, ca. As a cataloger, I get to “play with” them, in a sense - but it’s not quite the same as “playing” games, I assure you - and I usually learn something and almost always enjoy doing it too: “instruction with delight,” as John Newbery famously phrased it.This all ran though my mind while cataloging a new Cotsen acquisition: a French board-game adaptation of Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days, titled: Le Voyage Autour du Monde en 80 Jours: d’apres le Roman de Jules Verne: Jeu de Société.

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