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Gambling Memorabilia & Playing Cards

Sat, Mar 28, 2020 12:00PM EDT
Lot 161

Taylor, Rev. Ed. S., et al. The History of Playing Cards, with Anecdotes of their use in Conjuring, Fortune-Telling, and Card-Sharping.

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Taylor, Rev. Ed. S., et al. The History of Playing Cards, with Anecdotes of their use in Conjuring, Fortune-Telling, and Card-Sharping. London: John Camden Hotten, 1865. FIRST EDITION. Publisher?s green cloth pictorially stamped in gilt and ruled in blind, spine lettered in gilt, slate endpapers. Colored frontispiece under tissue. Forty-eight plates, colored woodcut device on title page. Thick 8vo. xiii, 529pp., [16] pub.?s catalog. Corners and ends rubbed, catalog paper labels affixed to front pastedown. Toole Stott 657. Jessel 1571.