The Chronological Star of the World, an unrecorded coloured lithograph circular board game mounted on folded canvas with historical events including America's Declaration of Independence, Britain's Slave Trade Abolished, Inoculation and Air Pumps Invented - Published July 1st 1818 by J Marshall Juvenile Library 140 Fleet Street London

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The Chronological Star of the World, an unrecorded coloured lithograph circular board game mounted on folded canvas with historical events including America's Declaration of Independence, Britain's Slave Trade Abolished, Inoculation and Air Pumps Invented - Published July 1st 1818 by J Marshall Juvenile Library 140 Fleet Street London

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John Marshall, a dissected puzzle maker, is listed as Newbery's great rival in Juvenile publishing in the eighteenth century, see The English Jigsaw Puzzle by Linda Hannas. He was at 140 Fleet Street between 1805 and 1828, but is not mentioned in F.R.B. Whitehouse's Table Games of Georgian and Victorian Days.

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