Researches into the History of Playing Cards: with Illustrations on the Origin of Printing and Engraving on Wood

Name: Researches into the History of Playing Cards: with Illustrations on the Origin of Printing and Engraving on Wood
Price: 5500 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Samuel Weller Singer

by Samuel Weller Singer

$5,500 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

London: Printed by T. Bensley & Son for Robert Triphook, 1816. First edition. Limited edition, one of 250 copies for subscribers. Full red crushed morocco with gilt to spine and boards. Five raised bands. Dentelles gilt. Top edge brightly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Robert Hoe III 1839-1909 to front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Mary Macmillin Norton below. Collating

Binding: Leather

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