The Shove Ha'penny Board Displayed 1934 Trelawney Dayrell-Reed ~ Pub Games

Title: The Shove Ha'penny Board Displayed: A Treatise wherein, together with the History, the whole Theory and Practice of that diverting Art and admirable Mystery are described

Author: Trelawney Dayrell-Reed

Description: Boards in buff-colored cloth with lime-green lettering and comic pictorial on the front cover. Spine and edges of boards darkened. A few spots of splitting to cloth along spine edges. Previous owner's neatly inscribed ownership notation (dated 1937) on front pastedown. Pages show foxing or light soiling, generally in the top margins. Thirteen in-text illustrations. 96 pages. 18 x 11 cm. Undated [1934].

A disquisition on the game of shove ha'penny, its lore, history, varieties, amusements, and techniques, imparted to the reader by a quirky, but affable, story-teller over a draught and a pipe in an inn.

The author, Trelawney Dayrell-Reed (1885-1959) was an eccentric gentleman, an Oxford poet, artist, historian, and a friend of Sacheverell Sitwell, Douglas Goldring, and the Welsh painters Augustus John and James Dickson Innes.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good–
Jacket Condition: None

Publisher: Printed for Christophers
Place: London
Year: 1934

Keywords: pub games, coin games, shuffleboard, British, shove halfpenny,