Wallis' Locomotive Game of Railroad Adventures Author(s)_Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) from the Cotton collection

from the Cotton collection

Estienne device to titles

By the 1850s the railway carried fresh Grimsby fish to Billingsgate and beyond

and perhaps London is more likely

Wallis' Locomotive Game of Railroad Adventures Author(s)_Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) from the Cotton collectionBritannia sits in the central panel of this cartographic board game, contemplating possibilities for commerce and the arts opened up by the new railways The 48 squares around the board depict locomotives, rolling stock, and some principal stations of the growing rail network. Also illustrated are the hazards of early rail travel some more catastrophic than others (floods, derailment, pigs on the line etc). Condition & Materials Engraved folding race