Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing CardsChatto, William Andrew
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Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards
Chatto, William Andrew
Playing cards -- History
Chesterfield, _the_ Earl of, a card-player, 173.
Chinese cards, 55-9.
Christie, James, his inquiry into an ancient Greek game, 13.
Clubs for gaming, 170.
Cole's, Dr. loss of his commission, 327.
Collier, Jeremy, on gaming, 312.
Colours of the ground of the Hindostanee cards, 17, 35, 36, 37.
Comedy devised on the game of cards, 122.
Controversy on the lawfulness of playing at cards and other games of
chance, 128, 279.
Cook's, Aurelian, Titus Britannicus, 145.
Cotta's Card Almanacs, 259.
Cotton's Complete Gamester, 159.
Counting and guessing, 11.
Covelluzzo's account of the introduction of cards into Viterbo,
23, 73.
Cuffe, secretary to the Earl of Essex, his fortunes told by cards,
119.
Curse of Scotland, 266-8.
Cyprian, St., his treatise, de Aleatoribus, 61, 290.
Daniel's, Père, Origine du Jeu de Piquet, 4, 209, 265.
Dictionary of the Spanish Academy; its sanction of a conundrum as an
etymology of Naipes, 23.
Dominotiers, an old name for engravers and colourers of woodcuts, 87.
Ducange's glossaries, 63, 99.
Duchesne's, Observations sur les Cartes à jouer, and Précis
Historique, 65, 99, 189, 204, 206, 210, 225.
Dunbar's, Wm., poems, 110; Valet of cards, 234.
Dutch names of the suits of cards, 230.
Elizabeth, Queen, a card-player, 120.
Engravings, a series of, improperly called Tarocchi cards, 199-204.
Epitaph on Beau Nash, 173; on a noble gambler, 297.
Equity, natural, how to be enforced in games of hazard, 287.
Evelyn's Memoirs, 146.
Exchequer, derivation of the word, 16, 21.
Fante, the Italian name for the Knave of cards, 229.
Fierge, the Pherz of Persian chess, 14.
Fleur-de-lis, on coat cards, and in the compass, 7.
Foreign Quarterly Review, article on Whist, 36.
Formschneider, a wood-engraver, as distinguished from a
card-painter, 83.
Forret, Thomas, his objections to the manner in which many of the
Scottish clergy, about 1539, spent their tithes, 111-12.
Fortune, the gambler's goddess, 11.
Fortune-telling by cards, 116-19.
Four Kings, a name given to cards, 19.
Franklin, Dr., his definition of man, 1.
Freret on the origin of chess, 14.
Furny card, explained, 109.
Game, the first played at, 9.
Games at cards in 1709, 159.
Before the time of Charles II, 160.
Games, various, enumerated by Taylor, the water-poet, 163.
Games, three different species of, 294.
Gaming, excessive, of the French clergy, about 1580, 111.
Gammer Gurton's Needle, cards mentioned in, 109.
Gataker, Thos. B. D., on Lots, 129, 279.
Gebelin, Court de, finds in cards an abstract of Egyptian learning, 5;
his explanation of the word Tarocchi, 189.
Geiler, John, his remarks on card-playing about 1508, 100.
Geographical cards, 150.
German cards, names of the suits, 228.
Gittern, guitar, derivation of the word, 25.
Goethe's Götz von Berlichingen, 61.
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