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Total number of records: 216

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Archives	182
Books and printed items	34

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture	181
Brotherton Collection	10
Cookery Collection	3
Herbert Read Collection	3
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection	1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
games	216
play	181
community life	122
culture	104
persons	82
sports	72
folk music	64
folklore	60
manners and customs	57
english language - dialects	51

Count of Place

Place	Count
England	6
Great Britain	2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)	66
Cooke, Jane A	10
Scott, William	8
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)	7
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)	6
Rutter, John Tom	6
Strutt, Joseph (1749-1802)	6
Tammivaara, Irmeli	4
Waller, Vivien M	4
Wright, John T	4

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1500	1
From 1700	3
From 1800	16
From 1900	196

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1599	1
Up to 1799	3
Up to 1899	15
Up to 1999	197

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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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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

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El brujo en sociedad, ó sea breve instruccion para aprender a ejecutar con destreza muchos juegos de manos : y otras varias suertes curiosas y divertidas

Mieg, Juan

1839

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Mr. Hoyle's games of whist, quadrill, piquet, chess and back-gammon. Complete : in which are contained, the method of playing and betting, at those games, upon equal, or advantageous terms, including the laws of the several games

Hoyle, Edmond (1672-1769)

[1761]

Games of whist, quadrill, piquet, chess and back-gammon, complete.

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Games and sports : being an appendix to "Manly exercises" and "Exercises for ladies;" containing the various in-door games and sports, the out-of-door games and sports, those of the seasons, &c. and omitting only games of hazard, and such games or sports as are either frivolous or dangerous

Walker, Donald; Adlard, H

1837

Frontispiece by H. Adlard. Added engraved t.-p.: Sports and games.