Researches into the History of Playing Cards
Singer (Samuel Weller). 1816.
One of 250 copies, half-title, engraved frontispiece on india paper and mounted, title in red and black, list of subscribers, plates and illustrations, some engraved on india paper and mounted, 8 hand-coloured woodcut plates of cards, contemporary diced russia, gilt, covers with elaborate centre- and cornerpieces in blind, t.e.g., spine gilt, rubbed, joints worn and split, backstrip detached, 4to, 1816.
