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[CHAPTER I.]
Of the Origin and Name of Cards1
[CHAPTER II.]
Introduction of Cards into Europe60
[CHAPTER III.]
Progress of Card-Playing92
[CHAPTER IV.]
Of the different Kinds of Cards, and the Marks of the Suits189
[CHAPTER V.]
The Morality of Card-Playing279
[Appendix]331
[Index]337

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]

ORIGIN AND HISTORY

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