CHAPTER V.

THE MORALITY OF CARD-PLAYING 279

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 de Dieu_, 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 239

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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PLAYING CARDS.