This book has been written to introduce some of the best board and table games from the world’s treasury to the reader. INTEREST BOARD and TABLE GAMES From Many Civilizations Over 300 illustrations, both photographs and line drawings, add an illuminating counterpoint to the text. Game players, toymakers, and historians of culture will welcome this guided tour of games from Egypt, Meso-America, the Orient, India, Persia, Rome, Africa, Victorian England, and many other societies.
Additional information is furnished on making boards and pieces, and on gaming-counters. Volume one is divided into chapters devoted to race games, war games, games of position, Mancala games, dice games, and domino games volume two follows the same arrangement and then proceeds to games with numbers, card games requiring boards, and games requiring manual dexterity. Bell's encyclopedic work provides the rules and methods of play for 182 different games: Ma-jong, Hazard, Wei-ch'I (Go), backgammon, Wari, Continental draughts, Pachisi, Japanese chess, Bidou, Domino Loo, Cribbage, and many others. Originally published in two volumes in the 1960's, it is now available for the first time in a corrected, one-volume edition. Bell is a basic reference to board and table games from around the world, and one of the two or three finest books ever written on the subject. There are many authoritative books on card games and chess, but only a handful on the dozens of other games known to mankind.
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