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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.

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    The mystics throw the bones, and leave them where they lay. The witches lay their cards, but not for games to play..
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    Simplistic, yet beautiful
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