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Total number of records: 240

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Archives	138
Books and printed items	102

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture	136
Cookery Collection	28
Brotherton Collection	24
Herbert Read Collection	4
English Literature	2
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections	2
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection	2
Leeds Russian Archive	1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
games	170
play	136
community life	97
sports	66
culture	64
persons	51
manners and customs	39
folk music	37
occupations	37
folklore	36

Count of Place

Place	Count
England	6
Great Britain	3
Yangtze River Valley (China)	2
Cape of Good Hope	1
Genoa, Italy	1
Rome	1
South Africa	1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)	66
Cooke, Jane A	9
Scott, William	8
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)	7
Mardon, Gisele (1930-2015)	6
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)	6
Rutter, John Tom	6
Strutt, Joseph (1749-1802)	6
Pindar	4
Tammivaara, Irmeli	4

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1500	1
From 1600	1
From 1700	11
From 1800	31
From 1900	192
From 2000	2

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1599	1
Up to 1699	1
Up to 1799	10
Up to 1899	30
Up to 1999	191
Up to latest	5

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Table games of Georgian and Victorian days

Whitehouse, F R B (1887-1977); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1971

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The game of knuckle bones

Lovett, Edward

[189-?]

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Board and table game antiques

Bell, R C (1917-2002); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1981

Includes bibliographical references (page 32).

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Healthy game : a lecture

Woodruffe-Peacock, E Adrian

1904

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A hand-book to the game-birds (v.1)

Ogilvie-Grant, William Robert (1863-1924); Sharpe, Richard Bowdler (1847-1909)

1896-1897

Contents: v. 1. Sand-grouse, partridges, pheasants -- v. 2. Pheasants (continued), megapodes, curassows, hoatzins, bustard-quails.

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A hand-book to the game-birds (v.2)

Ogilvie-Grant, William Robert (1863-1924); Sharpe, Richard Bowdler (1847-1909)

1896-1897

Contents: v. 1. Sand-grouse, partridges, pheasants -- v. 2. Pheasants (continued), megapodes, curassows, hoatzins, bustard-quails.

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Le Savant de société : ouvrage dédié a la jeunesse, contenant la description exacte de tous les Jeux innocens qui se pratiquent en société, avec la manière la plus agréable de les jouer. Suivi des pénitences qui s'y ordonnent et d'une nouvelle méthode d'ecrire les lettres secretes et mystérieuses. Recueil tiré des manuscrits de Madame de B***... [etc.]

B Madame de

1801

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Games : (and how to play them)

Rockwell, Anne

1973

Originally published, New York: Crowell, 1973.

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Cento giuochi liberali, et d'ingegno. Nouellamente da M. Innocentio Ringhieri... ritrouati, et in dieci libri descritti

Ringhieri, Innocenzio (fl. 1550); Giaccarello, Anselmo (fl. 1545-1565)

1551

Signatures: [dagger]⁴ A-2S⁴ (2S4 blank). Colophon: In Bologna alle spese dell'authore impressa, per Anselmo Giaccarelli alli XXV d'Agosto M.D.LI.

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Académie universelle des jeux : contenant les règles de tous les jeux, avec des instructions faciles pour apprendre à les bien jouer

Bellecour l'abbé; Hoyle, Edmond (1672-1769); Philidor, F D (1726-1795)

1789

Anonymous. L'abbé Bellecour is probable author; his name appears in English translations of the same work. Cf. NUC pre-1956.

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Leikir fyrir heimili og skóla

Aðalsteinn Hallsson (1903-)

1934

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Roman sport and entertainment

Buchanan, David

1976