Old And Curious Playing Cards,
£40.00
Publisher
B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 15, North Audley Street, Mayfair.
Place
London
Date
1931
Synopsis
Their history and types from many countries and periods.
Item Description
4to. 9.75 x 7.75 inches. 235 + [5] pp., blank for notes, and colophon. Title page in red and black with red borders. Bound in quarter cream cloth over green boards with pictorial block; spine with black titles, contrasting title label and pictorial block. Spine darkened and occasional traces of foxing, but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by colour frontispiece and 315 text figures, including colour and whole page. Decorated by vignettes, including title page and preliminaries and by opening headpiece and initial. A well illustrated and detailed historical study of playing cards, principally based on collections from the British Museum, Bodleian Library and the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards at the Guildhall, London. It examines examples from around the world, with a more detailed thematic description of English cards. By Henry T. Morley of Reading and the Berkshire Archaeological Society and author of Monumental Brasses of Berkshire.
[Stock No. 28806]
