Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards

by William Andrew Chatto

4. Copies of the set of fifty old Italian engravings, usually called Tarocchi. Supposed date, 1470.

5. Ten plates, containing a set of fifty-two circular cards, with the mark T. W., and having Hares, Parroquets, Pinks, and Columbines as the marks of the suits. Supposed date, 1477.

6. Four cards of a pack engraved on copper at Venice in 1491.

7. Ten plates, containing forty cards, with Human Figures, Bears and Lions, Deer, and Birds as the marks of the suits. From the originals, ascribed to the "Master of 1466," formerly in the possession of Mr. T. Wilson, but now in the Bibliothèque du Roi.

8. Four plates, containing thirty-six cards of a German pack of fifty-two, engraved on wood, of the date 1511.

9. A plate, containing sixteen Portuguese cards, of the date 1693.

10. A plate, containing twelve French cards, engraved by Vincent Goyraud, of the time of Henry IV.

11. A plate, containing sixteen French cards, of the time of Louis XIII.

12. A plate, containing twelve cards of a Republican pack, engraved in France about 1793.

13. A plate, containing twelve cards of another Republican pack, engraved in France about the same period as the preceding.