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[Recreative pastime by card-play; geographical, chronological, and historiographical, of England and Wales; shewing the commodities and rarities of each county. Very useful for all travellers]

  • Original object type: Artefact
  • Title: [Recreative pastime by card-play; geographical, chronological, and historiographical, of England and Wales; shewing the commodities and rarities of each county. Very useful for all travellers]
  • Description:

    Advantage was taken of the fact that there are 52 counties in England and Wales and 52 cards in a pack.

    This series of playing-cards in exceedingly rare.

    The maps are tiny, nearly obliterated by the suitmark, distorted and only show the county town.

    Indexed in: Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 37.

  • Date range: [1676]
  • Date: 1676
  • Depositing User: - libemu
  • Date Deposited: 07 Jul 2015 18:00
  • Last Modified: 07 Jul 2015 18:01