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This day, handsomely bound, pp. 550, price 7s. 6d.
History of Playing Cards: with Anecdotes of their Use in Ancient and Modern Games, Conjuring, Fortune-Telling, and Card-sharping. With Sixty curious illustrations on toned paper. Skill and Sleight-of-Hand; Gambling and Calculation; Cartomancy and Cheating; Old Games and Gaming-Houses; Card Revels and Blind Hookey; Piquet and Vingt-et-un; Whist and Cribbage; Old-fashioned Tricks.
“A highly-interesting volume.”—Morning Post.
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THE HOUSEHOLD STORIES OF ENGLAND.
Popular Romances of the West of England; or, the Drolls of Old Cornwall. Collected and edited by ROBERT HUNT, F.R.S.
For an analysis of this important work see printed description, which may be obtained gratis at the publisher’s.
Many of the stories are remarkable for their wild poetic beauty; others surprise us by their quaintness; whilst others, again, show forth a tragic force which can only be associated with those rude ages which existed long before the period of authentic history.