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
White's coffee-house, 161-2; club at, 178.
Wilson, Mr. T., old cards engraved on copper, formerly belonging
to, 224.
Wilson, Professor, on card-playing, in the 'Noctes Ambrosianæ,' 303-7.
Wood-engraving, the earliest with an authentic date, 85.
Worcester, council of, prohibitions in its canons, 62.
Wuruq, a leaf, the name for a card with the Moslems in Hindostan, 25.
Xavier, St. Francis, card-playing in the East in his time, 53;
his lenity towards gamesters, 307.
Yack an napes, Jackanapes, Jack-a-Naipes, the Knave of cards, 233.
Zani, P. on the Pipozzi MS., 65.
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C. AND J. ADLARD, PRINTERS, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE.
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