History of Playing Cards, by William Andrew Chatto -

FACTS AND SPECULATIONS
ON THE
ORIGIN AND HISTORY
OF
PLAYING CARDS.

BY

WILLIAM ANDREW CHATTO.

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Hæc mihi charta nuces, hæc est mihi charta fritillus.—Martial.

With Cards I while my leisure hours away,

And cheat old Time; yet neither bet nor play.

LONDON:
JOHN RUSSELL SMITH,
OLD COMPTON STREET, SOHO SQUARE.

MDCCCXLVIII.

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CONTENTS.

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	PAGE
CHAPTER I.
Of the Origin and Name of Cards	1
CHAPTER II.
Introduction of Cards into Europe	60
CHAPTER III.
Progress of Card-Playing	92
CHAPTER IV.
Of the different Kinds of Cards, and the Marks of the Suits	189
CHAPTER V.
The Morality of Card-Playing	279

Appendix	331
Index

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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The "Honours" of an eight-suit pack of Hindostanee Cards	42
Specimens of Chinese Cards, of the kind called Tseen-wan-che-pae	57-8
A Card Party, from an illustration in a manuscript of the Cité, apparently of the early part of the fifteenth century	71
Copies of Old Stencilled Cards in the British Museum, apparently of a date not later than 1440	88-9
Fac-simile of one of Murner's Cards for teaching logic, 1509	105
Copies of Four Small Cards, from Marcolini's Sorti, 1540	117
Woodcut, "Thus of Old" and "Thus Now," from Samuel Ward's Woe to Drunkards, 1627	131
The Knaves of Hearts and Clubs; and the Knaves of Spades and Diamonds, from the Four Knaves, by Samuel Rowlands, 1610-13	133-6
Fac-similes of four Heraldic Cards, from a pack engraved in England about 1678	152
Fac-similes of the Signatures of Edmund Hoyle and Thomas Osborne	170
Copy of a plate in Darly's Political and Satirical History, showing the Coat Cards for 1759	183
Copies of two of the painted cards, ascribed to Jacquemin Gringonneur, preserved in the Bibliothèque du Roi at Paris	198
Copies of four French Cards, coloured,—the King of Diamonds; the Queen and King of Spades; and the King of Hearts,—of the latter part of the fifteenth century	212
Copies of the Four Knaves, coloured,—Lancelot, Hogier, Roland, and Valery,—of the latter part of the fifteenth century. In the British Museum	214
Copies of Eight Circular Cards belonging to a pack engraved on copper about 1480, with Hares, Parroquets, Pinks, and Columbines as the marks of the suit	222
Four Cards of a pack engraved on copper, apparently about the end of the fifteenth century, with Swords, Clubs, Cups, and Pomegranates, as the marks of the suits. In the British Museum	225
The Sevens of a pack of Tarots, with Swords, Cups, Batons, and Money as the marks of the suits	227
The Second Coat Cards of the suits of Acorns and Leaves—in a German pack engraved on wood, 1511	236-7
The Sevens of a pack of German Cards, with Bells, Hearts, Leaves, and Acorns, as the marks of the suits	238
Copies of Four Small German Cards, of the seventeenth century	239
The Valets of a pack of French Cards, of the time of Henry IV	250
The Chevaliers, or Valets, of a pack of Portuguese Cards, of the date 1693	252
Figure of "the real Spata," as shown in Baker's Eclectic Cards, 1813	261
Tail-piece, Cheating Time with Cards	330
Cupid; from a cut relating to Prophecies and Fortune-telling, in Bagford's Collection, Harleian MSS. 5966	336
The Four of Cups, from an old card, in the same collection	343

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