Game Information
Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. (publisher) AGPI # · P-616Full Publisher Info
Peter Rabbit's Race Game (game title) AGPI # · G-35131
Title Language · 
English
Date · 
1921 
Date Source(s)

Advertisement in Publisher's Weekly, Volume 100, 24 September 1921, page 933

Variant Description

metal pieces, board folded in four sections

Game Type · 
Price

$3.50

Rules Format

(no rules present in games examined)

Container Type

cardboard implements box, cardboard game board

Container Size · (measured in inches)

4 ¾ inches wide — 3 ⅝ inches high — 1 ½ inches deep

27.3 cm wide — 11.1 cm high — 14 cm deep

Cover Description

Implements box:white label with double blue line border. All text is in light blue.

At top, underlined: "A game full of fun and adventure", and below: "INTENSELY AMUSING".

Below and left of center: "PETER" above "RABBIT'S" above "RACE" above "GAME".

To right is an illustration of alight brown squirrel, standing on two legs.

At right: "Introducing BEATRIX POTTER'S world-famed characters - PETER RABBIT
SQUIRREL NUTKIN
JEREMY FISHER
AND
JEMIMA
PUDDLE-DUCK"

At bottom: "London - FREDERICK WARNE & CO. LTD. - & New York"
"Copyright - - All rights reserved"

Underlabel Description

red

Apron Descriptions

Red with no design.

Box Bottom Description

red, empty

Contents

Red cardboard cylindrical cup (3 1/4" tall, 1 1/4" diameter) with white circle on side and metal bottom.

Playing pieces ( 1 1/8" to 1 1/2" tall without base), made of metal: a duck (Jemima Puddle-Duck), squirrel (Squirrel Nutkin), rabbit (Peter Rabbit), and frog (Jeremy Fisher), depicting characters from Beatrix Potter books.

Fourfold cardboard game board (29 3/4" wide by 19 3/4" high by 1/16" thick) has a red back. At top: "PETER RABBIT'S RACE GAME" (black). At bottom left: "FREDERICK WARNE & Co. Ltd. London and New York" (black). At bottom right: "COPYRIGHT - All rights reserved". Race game has separate routes for each of the four players, who each use one of the playing pieces (Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Jeremy Fisher, and Jemima Puddle-Duck). Each route has 123 numbered steps. The start is at the center, marked "THE MEETING PLACE IN THE WOOD". Board has 24 illustrations of the characters in different scenes outside the player's routes. Some numbered steps have special behaviors that are described on the board, though most numbered steps do not.

Database Update Date · 
2021-05-03 18:12:33

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