Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing CardsChatto, William Andrew
History
Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards
Chatto, William Andrew
Playing cards -- History
A Treatise on Wood Engraving. (By Wm. A. Chatto.) P. 52-9. Royal 8vo.
Published by Charles Knight and Co., London, 1839.--Copies of this work
without the _Third_ Preface are incomplete.
Catalogue des livres, dessins, cartes, etc., de M. C. Leber. 8vo,
Paris, 1839. The list of works on cards, and of old cards collected by
Mons. Leber, is in tom. i, p. 240 et seq.
Etudes historiques sur les Cartes à jouer, principalement sur les
Cartes Françaises. Par M. C. Leber. Extrait du tome xvi des Mémoires de
la Société Royale des Antiquaires de France. 8vo, Paris, 1842.
Notice Bibliographique sur les Cartes à jouer. 8vo, Paris, 1842.--A
Translation from the 'Lehrbuch einer Literargeschichte der berühmtesten
Volker des Mittelalters.' Von J. G. T. Grasse, Dresden, 1842, with
additions, by Brunet, the younger.
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Bois. Tom. i, p. 374.
Whist. By B. E. Pote. In the Foreign Quarterly Review, No. 48.
On the Costume of Coat Cards. By John Adey Repton. In the 'Gentleman's
Magazine' for November, 1843.
Sur d'anciennes Cartes à jouer, par M. le Baron de Reiffenberg. Dans
le Bulletin de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et des Beaux-arts de
Bruxelles. No. 10, 1847.
Bibliotheca Antiquaria Fabricii.
Vindiciæ typographicæ, auctore Schœpflin.
Dissertation sur l'Origine et le Progrès de la Gravure en Bois, par
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Essais sur Paris, par Saint-Foix.
Traité de la Police, par De la Marre.
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INDEX.
Act of Parliament, of 1463, prohibiting the importation of cards, 96.
--Acts to protect gamesters who play on credit, 147;
the reason of their partial repeal, 148.
Advice to professional card-players, 270.
Alea, a general term for play; supposed to include cards, 61.
Almanac, Cotta's card, 259;
the Perpetual, or Gentleman-Soldier's Prayer Book, 321.
Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy, forbids gaming in 1430, 80.
Ames, William, 129;
preaches against cards and dice at Cambridge in 1610, 281.
Amman, Jost, his designs in a book of trades, 84;
cards of his designing, 238.
Anderson's History of Commerce, 96.
---- Christopher, Annals of the English Bible, 109, 112.
---- R., Ballads in the Cumberland dialect, 185.
Anson, Lord, the circumnavigator, caricatured as a gamester, 181.
Anstis's History of the Garter, 18.
Arabian Nights, cards not mentioned in, 46.
Aretine, Pietro, his Carte Parlanti, 194, 207.
Assembly-rooms devoted to dancing and cards, 185.
Astragali, 11.
Avatars of Vichnou, 38.
Bacon, Lord, his inquisitive spirit excited when a boy by a juggling
trick with cards, 118.
Baker's chronicle, 108.
Baker and Co.'s eclectic cards, 261.
Bale, John, uses the word Jack-a-Naipes, 233.
Balmford's, James, tract concerning the unlawfulness of games of
hazard, 129, 279.
Barbeyrac's Traité du Jeu, extracts from, 282-94, 310.
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