Origine des Cartes à Jouer. Dediée aux Amateurs.

£1,850 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

The only institutional copies of this impressive sheet that we can trace are in the British Museum (bequeathed by Lady Charlotte Schreiber, 1812-95, a great collector of games, playing cards, and fans) and in the Bibliothèque nationale de France; an impression was sold at auction in Paris in January 2016. It was advertised for sale in the Journal Génerale de l’Imprimerie et de la Libraire (No. 18, 2 April 1811) and the Journal de l’Empire (22 April 1811, at 2 francs 50 centimes (3 francs with postage) but has otherwise escaped notice.

• Year: 1811

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