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William Andrew Chatto. Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards
Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. OF THE ORIGIN AND NAME OF CARDS
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER II. INTRODUCTION OF CARDS INTO EUROPE
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER III. THE PROGRESS OF CARD-PLAYING
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER IV. OF THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF CARDS AND THE MARKS OF THE SUITS
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER V. THE MORALITY OF CARD-PLAYING
FOOTNOTES:
APPENDIX
INDEX
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William Andrew Chatto
Published by Good Press, 2019
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[28] "Après souper venoient en place les beaulx Evangiles de bois, c'est-à-dire force tabliers, ou le beau flux, ung, deux, trois."—Rabelais, livre i, chap. 22.
[29] The following verses relating to this point are quoted by Peignot, in his Analyse de Recherches sur les Cartes à Jouer, from a poem intituled "La Magdeleine au Désert de la Sainte-Baume en Provence, Poëme spirituel et chrétien, par le P. Pierre de St. Louis, religieux Carme." Lyons, 1668.
