Item #22104 A Descriptive Catalogue of Playing and Other Cards in the British Museum Accompanied by a Concise General History of the Subject and Remarks on Cards of Divination and of a Politico-Historical Character. William Hughes Willshire.
A Descriptive Catalogue of Playing and Other Cards in the British Museum Accompanied by a Concise General History of the Subject and Remarks on Cards of Divination and of a Politico-Historical Character.
A Descriptive Catalogue of Playing and Other Cards in the British Museum Accompanied by a Concise General History of the Subject and Remarks on Cards of Divination and of a Politico-Historical Character.
A Descriptive Catalogue of Playing and Other Cards in the British Museum Accompanied by a Concise General History of the Subject and Remarks on Cards of Divination and of a Politico-Historical Character.

A Descriptive Catalogue of Playing and Other Cards in the British Museum Accompanied by a Concise General History of the Subject and Remarks on Cards of Divination and of a Politico-Historical Character.

(London): Printed by Order of the Trustees, 1876-77. First Edition. Hardcover. Item #22104

x, 360pp + supplement with 87pp and 23 plates (some of which are in color). Dark brown cloth stamped in blind on the front and the rear and lettered in gold on the spine, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Frontispiece and illustrations. With the bookplate of entomologist Frederick DuCane Godman on the front pastedown endpaper. Some wear to extremities, some annotations in pencil on the margins, one plate loose. A very good- copy. Jessel 1702.; Octavo.

Price: $450.00