The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 318
e honour of having been the cradle of this invention.Taking advantage of this, they have also even thought themselves war-ranted in laying claim to the credit of the original manufacture of cards ; PLAYING-CARDS. 249 whereas the fact is that all they can claim is to have been the first toproduce… … Fig. 229.—The Knight, from a Pack of Cards engraved by The Master of 1466.(Bibl. Imp. of Paris ) of books. It certainly is a fact that wood-engraving, which was for a longtime limited to a few studios in Holland and Upper Germany, owed a largeshare of its progress to the trade in playing-cards—one…
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