The New Game of Human Life

Game of Life, detailOn 14 July 1790, the London firms of John Wallis and Elizabeth Newbery together published The New Game of Human Life. This morally instructive race-game joined with and propelled an ongoing merger between the flourishing children’s educational market and innovations in publishing and print culture. Image: The New Game of Human Life, detail (1790, courtesy of collezione A. Seville. http://www.giochidelloca.it/images/h/humanlife0142a.jpg).

Articles


Christopher Rovee, “The New Game of Human Life, 1790″

Associated Place(s)

Event date:

14 Jul 1790

Parent Chronology: 

Event Source: