On 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).
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