[The 52 countries [sic] of England and Wales, described in a pack of cards]

A second edition, in which each card showed the names of the adjoining counties, was issued later in the year 1676. A third edition was issued about 1680.

Advantage was taken of the fact that there are 52 counties in England and Wales and 52 cards in a pack. The 13 northern counties are the clubs, the eastern the hearts, the southern the diamonds and the Welsh counties the spades.

Each card is divided into three parts: the upper contains the suitmark (stencilled in by hand), the title of the map and the designation of the card; the centre part contains a map of a county and the lower part contains a few measurements of the county, etc.

Each king contains a small portrait of Charles II in a circle, each queen Catherine of Braganza, but the knaves are all different, showing just the heads of youngish men.

Many of the maps are the first, of their respective counties, on which a road was shown.

Entry in term catalogue of 5 May 1676.

Indexed in: Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 35.