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The new game of Paul Pry

Game ID: GID0341159
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A race game based on Paul Pry (1825), a farcical comedy, written by the English playwright John Poole. It premiered in London on 1825-09-13 at the Haymarket Theatre and ran 114 performances. The play continued to be popular until the early 1870s.

Description from Table Games of Georgian and Victorian Days by Francis Reginald Beaman Whitehouse:

"PAUL PRY. The new game of London, printed by D. CARVALHO, 74 Chiswell Street, Finsbury Square. Printed from type and wood blocks on a sheet of paper size 19 in X 15 in, watermarked “JOHN HALL, 1811”. A race game very crudely printed and divided into 14 rectangular spaces, the rules occupying the 15th. Not dated."

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1811
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