Order Nr. 55384 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF PLAYING AND OTHER CARDS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM ACCOMPANIED BY A CONCISE GENERAL HISTORY OF THE SUBJECT AND REMARKS ON CARDS OF DIVINATION AND OF A POLITICO-HISTORICAL CHARACTER. William Hughes Willshire.

DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF PLAYING AND OTHER CARDS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM ACCOMPANIED BY A CONCISE GENERAL HISTORY OF THE SUBJECT AND REMARKS ON CARDS OF DIVINATION AND OF A POLITICO-HISTORICAL CHARACTER.

(Playing Cards).

2 volumes in one.

  • Amsterdam: S.Emmering, 1975.
  • 8vo.
  • cloth, dust jacket.
  • (xii),360; viii,87, with 23 additional pages of plates.
  • ISBN: 9060333616

Price: $50.00  other currencies

Order Nr. 55384

First published in 1876 in two volumes. Miss Sylvia Mann wrote the following in her preface: "Recently it has become one of the rarest and most sought after items of card literature: it is a great pleasure to know that once again its contents will be more easily available to the serious collector and historian alike...but the aura of the work is that of a serious scholar with an extremely wide knowledge of prints and printing bringing his resources to bear in illuminating many aspects of what was then, and still remains, a very special subject." Contains detailed descriptions of early French and English engraved packs.