Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards
by William Andrew Chatto
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About this eBook
- Author
- Chatto, William Andrew, 1799-1864
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Christian Boissonnas and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- GV: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Recreation, Leisure
- Subject
- Playing cards -- History
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 45584
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45584
- Release Date
- May 4, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.FACTS AND SPECULATIONS ON THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF PLAYING CARDS.
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 5.CHAPTER I. OF THE ORIGIN AND NAME OF CARDS — FOOTNOTES:
- 6.CHAPTER II. INTRODUCTION OF CARDS INTO EUROPE. — FOOTNOTES:
- 7.CHAPTER III. THE PROGRESS OF CARD-PLAYING. — FOOTNOTES:
- 8.CHAPTER IV. OF THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF CARDS AND THE MARKS OF THE SUITS. — FOOTNOTES:
- 9.CHAPTER V. THE MORALITY OF CARD-PLAYING. — FOOTNOTES:
- 10.APPENDIX.
- 11.INDEX. — Transcriber's Note:
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