With thanks to Alan Knox - Glasgow and Jean-François Dias - France for their cooperation.

Edition: BRER FOX an' BRER RABBIT
Publisher: Newbie Game Company - Annan - Scotland
                  Patent 1913 - London - England -1913
Dimensions of the box: 23 x 23 x 1.9 cm
  of the unfolded board: 43 x 43 cm
The game:
This copy of a very early commercialised UK game is from the collection of Phil Orbanes - USA.

This game is based on the Landlord's Game, a game invented as early as in 1903 by the American lady Lizzie Magie, owner of the Economic Game Comp. - N.Y.. Lizzie was a follower of Henry George. (Georgism, is a philosophy and economic theory that follows from the belief that although everyone owns what they create; land, and everything else supplied by nature, belongs equally to all humanity.) 
The "fox" has Lloyd George's head on the cover of the box. He was the Prime Minister of England in 1913. His economic policies encouraged his opponents to publish "Brer Fox an' Brer Rabbit" to demonstrate the "evils" of his policies.

The game was introduced by the next article in the Scottish magazine "Land Values", May 1913,  which specialized in political efforts to reform the taxation of land:

" "The Landlord's Game"
This most interesting and amusing game has just been published by the Newbie Liberal Committee, and a more enjoyable way of passing these long, dark evenings than by playing the "Landlords' Game has yet to be thought of.
The board is marked off in spaces, each representing a property - it may be an estate, a house, a fishery, or a grouse moor (no mercy is shown to the poor player found trespassing there) - and on each space is printed the rent and sale price of the property. Cards, corresponding to the spaces, are dealt round, and the players (there may be two, three or four) providing themselves with counters representing £2,000, buy up as much property as they can afford. This purchase money goes into the "Public Treasury". Beginning at the "Mother Earth", and throwing the dice in turn, the players move their pawns round the board according to their throws, paying the rent of the spaces on which they land to the respective owners of the properties. Each time "Mother Earth" is passed the player is supposed to have performed a certain amount of labour, and receives £100 wages, the winner being he, who after passing "Mother Earth" five times, has amassed most wealth in property and money.
Many are the difficulties to be overcome in the journey round the board. A player may speculate and lose heavily, he may become bankrupt and have to go to the "Poorhouse" while his property is put up for auction for the others to bid for, or he may be caught poaching on "The Solway Fisheries" or "Lord Tomnoddy's Grouse Moor" and be sent to "Jail", from which he can only come out on payment of a heavy fine. Worse still, he may get into "Dottyville Lunatic Asylum", out of which, as may well believed, it is difficult indeed to escape.
Or a player may land on a space marked "Chance", in which case he draws a card from the pack marked "chance". His "chance" may be a "Week-end with Lord Tomnoddy" and the card instructs him to "pay £3 in tips to Flunkies to the owner of "Lord Tomnoddy's Grouse Moor", or it may be "Blackmail from Ratepayers for Water Monopoly", and he receives £50 from the Public Treasury.
Again a player may draw a Luxury card which counts £100 at the end of the game. Think of drawing the luxury of "A £1,000 dinner with the Duke of Westminster"!
There are many other adventures awaiting those who purchase the game, and we can promise to those that there will not be a dull night for the rest of the winter.
"The Landlords' Game" is published at the nominal price one shilling, and all land taxers should make a point of obtaining the game.
Application should be sent to Miss Clarke, Newbie, Annan. "
(Annan appeared to be a small Scottish town, close to the English frontier and situated along the north side of the Solway Firth bay.)

The gameboard is not mounted. It was simply printed on heavy paper and folded into quarters. 

From Mother Earth onwards all 23 numbered spaces (without any color bar) on the green game board are:

(1) Three Acre Cow Farm - (2) Market Garden - (3) Tareham Steam Laundry - (4) Solway Fisheries - (5) Imperial Taxes - (6) Gaol/Luxury - (7) Imperial Taxes - (8) The Midland Railway - (9) Dottyville Lunatic Asylum - (10) Undeveloped Coalfield - (11) The Zoo - (12) Pourhouse/Chance - (13) Daily Mail Offices - (14) Elephant and Castle Public House -(15) Lord Tonmoddy's Grouse Moor - (16) The British Museum - (17) The House of Lords - (18) Lord Broadacres' Estate - (19) Undeveloped City Site - (20) Selfridge's Store - (21) Grey Goose Common - (22) Westminster Abby and (23) The Bank of England.

This game can be played at 3 levels of difficulty:

1. Buying the land.
     Having received their starting amount of £3000 players can buy Site cards (sort of property deeds) for  which they have to pay Capital land value (sale price of the land) into the 
     Bank and place a Sold ticket, of the same color as of his token, on his site. 
    The players start moving over the bord from Mother Earth and according to the total number on both dice or on just one, at choice.
     Landing on a site the player have to pay Annual land value (rent) to the owner of the site. Unbought sites are rent-free.

     * On landing on Solway Fisheries or Lord Tonmoddy's Grouse Moor one must go to Gaol (jail), unless he can strike a private bargain with the owner to be let off.
     * On Dottyville Lunatic Asylum one must wait there in accordance with instructions.
     * On Lord Broadacres'Estate one must go to Gaol without alternative.
     * On Imperial Taxes one must pay Breakfast-table Duties or Tobacco Duties into the Public Treasury.
     * On a Luxury or Chance site one must draw a Luxury or Chance card and follow the instructions.
      
      If a player should be unable to pay his debts he must go to the Poorhouse until his debts are paid.
      A player receives his Wages each time he passes Mother Earth. After making 3 complete rounds he is entitled to an Old Age Pension every time he passes Mother Earth. 
      At the beginning of the game Wages are £200 and Old Age Pensions £30, but when all the Sites are bought up, Wages are halved, and Rents and Taxes are doubled.

2. Improving the land.
     In this part of the game each player receives a further £3000 from the Bank. The Improvement cards are exposed on the table and players begin to improve their land 
     taking into account that:

      * a player (not necessarily the owner of the site) must pay the Capital to the Bank.
      * Undeveloped Sites cannot be improved in this level.
      * a player landing on an improved site must pay Annual land value (rent) to the owner, Interest (rent of improvement) to the owner of the improvement and Rates (taxes) to 
         the Public Treasury.

     Whenever a player's property is all improved his Wages are raised to £300, but again, when all sites are bought up, Wages are halved, and Rents, Taxes and Rates are doubled.

3. Unrating Improvements and Taxing Land Values.
     In this part of the game Industry and Enterprise are relieved of all Rates and Taxes, and a new standard of rating is put into operation: Land values. It will now pay the 
     players to improve their properties as fast as possible.

     * The owner of Solway Fisheries now have to pay the Annual land value (rent) of £20 to the Public Treasury. He now finds it no longer to hold it, so he is glad to sell it to 
        the Government at half its value and the Gaol penalty is thereafter annulled.
     * The same for Lord Tonmoddy's Grouse Moor. Since Lord Tomnoddy is no longer able to send trespassers to Gaol, or levy blackmail from poachers, moreover having, 
        like other landlords, to pay Land Values Tax, he emigrates to Canada, leaving his steward to collect the rents and pay them to the Public Treasury.
     * Lord Broadacres'Estate has now been turned into a Public Park and the Gaol Penalty is annulled.
     * Undeveloped Sites are now assessed at full value for Land Value Tax, and their owners have now an interest in improving them to the utmost.
     * Breakfast-table Duties or Tobacco Duties are aboloshed, being no longer necessary for revenue.

Any player becoming bankrupt need no longer go to the Poorhouse, as he can betake himself to the nearest Natural Opportunity Space, where land is free and where he can earn wages to pay his debts. At his next throw he receives £100 wages, and if he can then pay his debts, moves on. If he is still unable to pay all his debts he must remain on the Free Land till he has accumulated sufficient cash to clear himself. He receives £100 wages at each throw.
Wages rise to £500 on passing Mother Earth, whilst Poverty and Unemployment disappear for ever.

Edition: The New Game Totopoly  - small green box with separate game board            
              "By the manufacturers of 'Monopoly' "
Publisher: John Waddington Ltd. - London and Leeds - 1938
Dimensions of the box:: 37.5 x 17.5 x 4 cm
The game:
This edition is from the collection of David Miller - UK.

David knows to tell that this first edition was released by Waddingtons in 1938. The inventors were a Walter Lee and Roy Palmer from Leeds. The game was registered under the UK patent number 505365. So there is no relation with the American games inventor and manufacturer Parker Brothers. However, in the same era Parker Brothers introduced Monopoly to their recently acquired European business contact John Waddinton (see: "The Game Makers, the story of Parker Brothers", by Philip E. Orbanes, page 99). It is obvious that Mr. Waddington did the same as the Parker Brothers, viz. lifting along with the tremendous succes of Monopoly to get a better turnover!

The idea of the game is that racehorses are leased by players, and trained by them for the race. Players have the opportunity of leasing horses at first option, that is through the deal, and later the chance arises to lease additional ones in the auction sale. In the same way players will acquire temporary ownership of a racing stable, veterinary surgeon's practice or forage merchant, etc.
When all the horses and businesses have been sold, the training of the horses then commences. Players may have to get trainers'and vet.'s reports on the progress of their horses, and it will be found when training has finished that some horses have made more progress than others by acquiring advantage cards, and have therefore more chance of winning the race.
Whilst it is possible by careful play in the race for any of the horses to win, the black (Dark Warrior - Flamenco - Dorigen) ones have more change than the red (Marmaduke Jinks - Leonidas II - Overcoat) ones, the reds more chance than the yellow (PLay On - Priory Park - Knight Error) ones, and the blues (King of Clubs - Jerome Fandor - Elton) least chance of all, but it may be found that during training a blue or yellow horse has improved so much that it has an equal chance with the blacks and reds. Naturally, the horses with the most chance in the first place and those that improve well in training, will be "backed" the most on the Tote, but, as in real racing, an outsider can always give players a big surprise.

The winner can either be the one with the most money at the end of the race, or the one with the winning horse. This should be decided at the beginning of the race!

For all editions applies there are:

Features of this edition are:

Edition: The New Game Totopoly  - oversized black box            
              "By the manufacturers of 'Monopoly' "
Publisher: John Waddington Ltd. - London and Leeds - ±1938
Dimensions of the box:: 53 x 37.5 x 6 cm
The game:
This edition is from the collection of David Miller - UK.

The box of this Deluxe edition is importantly larger, in such a way that it can contain the 
game board.

Features of this edition are:

Edition: The New Game Totopoly - small box with with separate game board          
              "By the manufacturers of 'Monopoly' "
Publisher: John Waddington Ltd. - London and Leeds - 1949
Dimensions of the box:: abt. 25 x 28 cm
The game:
This edition is from the collection of Jimmy Reus - NL.

This post-war edition is like the Monopoly issues, subject to the restrictions of the use of material. Therefor, like in the Monopoly editions of this era, the tokens are not of metal but consist of a wooden base and a cardboard figure.

Features of this edition are:

Edition: The Great Race  Game Totopoly              
              "By the manufacturers of 'Monopoly' "
Publisher: John Waddington Ltd. - London and Leeds - ±1960
Dimensions of the box::  abt. 53 x 37.5 x 6 cm
The game:
This edition is from the collection of Jimmy Reus - NL.

Features of this edition are:

More Totopoly editions to be found in David Moss' site http://www.totopoly.com/, also showing the French (Ascot), Australian (Totopoly) and Italian (Totòpoli) editions.

Edition: Marble Arch, bar code 700406
             "Outwit Your Rivals in The World Of High  Stakes And Hotel Empires"
Publisher: Parker Bros./Kenner Parker - ±1985
Dimensions of the box: 26 x 50.6 cm
The game:
This edition is from the collection of David Miller - UK.

This Uk edition considerably differs from those of other European issues in that it doesn't bear the name of the most expensive street of the Monopoly game: Mayfair. I have no idea what the reason for this can be, but since it is a game of getting properties and increasing your fortune like in Monopoly, this game, in 1985 issued by Parker Bros., has to be mentioned in this Lexicon. 
The idea however differs importantly from Monopoly: The board is oblong: 22.5 x 89 cm and contains 4 colored groups of 5 spaces each, of which the maximum of 4 players have to collect the properties cards. 
The 4 tokens are respectively a Pram, Roller skate, Sail boat and a Moped. There are 3 dice, one of them being white and provided with an F (Fortune), W (Wild) and one of the colors of each of the 4 spaces on the other 4 sides. 
Furthermore are 80 hotel units, 20 per color of the tokens. Dependent on the number of players each player gets 14 to 20 hotels. He is to build these, subject to the number of pips thrown, on spaces at choice. The Fortune cards will help. The token is always put on the space relating to the total of the property cards the player possesses. Player can no longer take part when he has no more hotels. Winner is of course the one who finally has most properties.
The cover shows a "years twenties"-like illustration of a lane with a London double-decked bus. The white bottom of the box shows the long game board in black and white.

The set was manufactured by Waddingtons - London and Leeds.

Identical games are Advance to Boardwalk (USA), Bau auf der Schossallee (D), Parco della Vittoria (I), La Calle Mayor (E) and Ga verder naar Kalverstraat (NL).

Again one of those theme games with a nice design and this time specially made for Pokémon lovers.
There is of course nothing difficult for a Pokémon fanatic, however for a simple Monopolist it looks nice but the names do not mean so much. A grandson and great connoisseur of this phenomenon explained the game:
The world of Pokémon consists of Gym's that are in 21 cities, forests, isles and such. The board's midfield features this World almost completely. 

(The computergame start at Pallet Town (on the game board next to space #145 Zapdos). From there onwards the gameway goes via Viridian City - Viridian Forest - Pewter City - Mt.Moon Cerulean City (unvisible under LY) - Sea Cottage (on the peninsula) - Rock Tunnel with the Power Plant - Lavender Town (the minaret on the T-crossing) - Diglett's Cave (the boulder under) to Fuchsia City and Safari Zone (mid under). The isle with the tapering mountain is called Cinnaber Island and the 2 islands next to it together are Seafoam Island.)

The Gym's are managed by Trainers. Each Trainer has a preferance for a kind of Pokémon, allround intelligent creatures, that basically not allow to be possessed. The Pokémon are divided into 15 classes to be recognized by the logo before the price. On the game board is choosen for resp.: Boulder - Water - Electric - Grass - Psychic - Poison - Fire and Earth. 

From Go onwards the properties are:

Brock's Gym: #74 Geodude - #95 Onix
Misty's Gym: #120 Staryu - #121 Starmie - #116 Horsea
Lt. Surge's Gym: #100 Voltorb - #125 Electabuzz - #26 Raichu
Erika's Gym: #71 Victreebel - #114 Tangela - #45 Vileplume
Sabrina's Gym: #64 Kadabra - #122 Mr. Mime - #49 Venomoth
Koga's Gym: #109 Koffing - #89 Muk - #110 Weezing
Blaine's Gym: #58 Growlithe - #77 Ponyta - #78 Rapidash
Giovanni's Gym: #31 Nidoqueen - #34 Nidoking

Instead of stations are 4 Poké-balls (with which you can catch Pokémon): Poké Ball - Great Ball - Ultra Ball and Master Ball.

The Professor Oak and Trainer Battle cards replace the Chance and Community Chest cards. 
The Poké-money consists of 7 different banknotes, of which the denominations are: 1 (white) - 5 - 10 - 20 - 50 - 100 and 500. Strange enough the "banker's tray" only has 5 holes.
Instead of houses and hotels there are light blue square stackable Poké Centers and red rectangular non-stackable Poké Marts, all made of  transparant plastic. 
The 6 tokens are well-known characters of this world, viz. #04 Charmander, #25 Pikachu, #35 Clefairy, #150 Mewtwo, #01 Bulbasaur and #09 Blastoise. They are packed together in a pre-shaped holder of black plastic.
The dice are white with black pips.

In order to better match this version of Monopoly with the Pokémon computer game additional rules have been added: Pokémon Power Doubles. In case of throwing doubles you may as usual choose for throwing once again or for a Pokémon Power, subject to the throw. The values are listed in a table in the Rules.

Edition: Monopoly Europe Edition - English, 
              Ref.Nr. 15283/102 
Publisher: Parker/Hasbro, Inc. - 2001
Dimensions of the box: 6.5 x 26.8 x 40.1cm
The game:
After the edition with ref.nr. 05597 had been published it appeared the Hasbro designers did not know the capital of Switserland. They placed the important city Geneva between the capitals of other European countries. However, it tooks 2 years until this new edition with new ref.nr. as well as a new presentation (enlarged tokens on the lid and a banner with "Europa") was issued showing the right Swiss capital Bern. All the rest of this game remained unchanged.

Edition: Monopoly - Stock Exchange, Ref.Nr. 16465/102 
Publisher: Parker/Hasbro Inc. - 2001
Dimensions of the box: 6.5 x26.8 x 40.1 cm
The game:
The most particular of this game is the computer that goes with it (however without batteries). The slogan of this Stock Exchange game is: "Buy for as low a price as possible and sell for substantial prices!"
Everything is simplified with this computer for the players (every player has his own entrance button). So they can calculate the exchange rate of their shares and store the "Presidencies of their compagnies".

The properties of this game are international and national compagnies that may differ per country. 
There are  22 million) higher and so you will receive over Start € 200M. The denominations of these Monopoly banknotes are resp.: 1M - 5M -10M - 20M - 50M - 100M and 500M. 
The 6 tokens are unfortunately the common metal tokens boat - dog - car - hat - shoe and iron.
The grounds are built with 32  Branches and 12 Main Settlements.

Edition: Wonders of the World, Ref.Nr. 48285/102
Publisher: Parker/Hasbro - 2003
Dimensions of the box: 26.8 x 40.1 x 5.3 cm
The game:
This edition is owned by Matthew Horton - UK.
This very nice special edition shows Mr. Monopoly in a balloon on the lid as well as on the game board. 
In this issue the properties are 22 of the most impressive and well-known wonders of the world. On the mortgage side of the property deeds is a short history. The stations have been replaced by European airports. 

From Go onwards the properties are:

Niagara Falls - Community Chest - Mount Everest - Travel Insurance - Amsterdam Schiphol - Great Barrier Reef - Chance - Grand Canyon - Angel Falls - Jail - O Cristo Redentor - Foreign Exchange - Eiffel Tower - Colosseum  - Paris Charles De Gaulle - Stonehenge - Community Chest - Taj Mahal - Moai Statues - Free Parking - Alan Smith - Chance - Angkor Wat - Petra - Rhein-Main Frankfurt Int. - The Great Wall - Pharos, Alexandria - Travel Agency - Colossus, Rhodos - Go to Jail - Mausoleum, Halicarnassus - Zeuss Statue, Olympia - Community Chest - Temple Of Artemis, Ephesus - London Heathrow - Chance - Hanging Gardens, Babylon - Airport Tax and Great Pyramid, Gizeh. 

The spaces have numbers pointing to the places in the world where these landmarks are situated. 
The Community Chest spaces show an ancient treasure chest in mahogany instead of blue, bulged with jewels. The innerbox has one large dark blue plastic tray with 4 big holes to store the houses and hotels and 2 rows of slots for the banker's cards and banknotes. The color picture on the bottom of the box clearly shows all details of this set.
The instructions on the cards are adapted to this issue. Examples are:

The heavy metal tokens are no world wonders but copies of inventions of transport means, i.e.: warrior-waggon - canoe - balloon - bicycle - steamengine - clipper - airplane and car. 
The € banknotes are those from earlier editions.
The plastic houses are dark blue, the hotels are beige. Both wooden dice are dark blue and have gold pips.

The specialty in this edition are those 4 plastified passports. The aim is to land on each of the streets and mark them in your passport. The first player to visit all world wonders receives a bonus of € 1500. This is also the moment the game ends. The crosses can be removed from the passports by a dark blue cloth supplied with the game. 
Both dice are blue with gold pips.

Edition: Tutankhamun, bc. nr. 009515
              And The Golden Age Of The Pharaohs
Publisher: Winning Moves UK. Ltd./Hasbro - 2007
Dimensions of the box: 26.8 x 40.1 x 5.3 cm
The game:
This edition is from the collection of David Miller - UK. 
Tutankhamun was an Egyptian Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty (ruled 1333 BC - 1323 BC), during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom. His original name, Tutankhaten, means "Living Image of Aten (disc of the Sun)", while Tutankhamun means "Living Image of Amun (a deity)".
Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered in Egypt in 1922.

The bottom side of the box says about this edition: 

"The incredable exhibition, Tutankhamon and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs can be seen at the O₂ bubble in North Greenwich peninsula in London (in the period between Nov.15 -2007 and Aug.30-2008) - the only European stop the exhibition makes following a record breaking tour around the USA. When the treasures first toured the world, audiences were awe-struck and millions all over the world visited as Tutankhamun became a world sensation. 
Over 35 years since they were last here, the treasures of Tutanhamun are back ... and what better way to commemorate this visit than with this limited edition game of this Monopoly! 
There are many treasures on the board - gleaming gold, magic amulets, and all sorts of articles of ancient Egyptian life. From the elaborate gold crown that was found on Tutanhamun's head and the iconic coffinette, to musical instruments, weapons and even a board game!
Travel round the artefacts, buying those that you can and, building civilisations upon them as you create your own legacy!
With shrines, pyramids and golden playing pieces this limited edition Monopoly game is truly a little piece of King Tut's world that you can take home!
For more information on the once in a lifetime chance to experience the exhibition and to book tickets to this historic event visit www.visitlondon.com."

From Go onwards the properties are:

Ivory Game - Community Chest - Model River Boat - Worship - Donkey - Ivory Cosmetic Dish - Chance - Cosmetic Jar - Cartouch Box - Jail - Canopic Chest of Tjuya - Musicians - Chair of Princess Sitamun - Portable Chest  - Boat - Tutankhamun - Community Chest - Queen Kiya - Amenhotep III - Free Parking - Serpent Goddess - Chance - Duamutef - Herwer - Chariot - Ceremonial Mace - Royal Crook and Flail - Shabti - Ceremonial Dagger - Go to Jail - Ankh Shaped Mirror Case - Broad Collar and Counterweight - Community Chest - Royal Diadem - Carrying Chair - Chance - Coffin of Tjuya - Worship and Coffinette of Tutankhamun. 

This is an absolute fabulous edition!