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.
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.