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Researches into the history of playing cards; with illustrations of the origin of printing and engraving on wood (1816)

Singer, Samuel Weller, 1783-1858 · leaf 169

An illustration from Researches into the history of playing cards; with illustrations of the origin of printing and engraving on wood, 1816, leaf 169 — 142 We are happy to have it in our power to exhibit the subjoined fac-simile of one of the prints in this extraordinary volume, the subject the marriage of the Virgin Mary; it is rather a favourable specimen of the style in which they are executed. … The volume which contains these singularly curious cuts was formerly in the collection of the Cardinal de Brienne, and has been described by the Abbé Laire ;* it contains also, as he has noticed, a * Index Libror. ab inventa Typog. ad annum 1500. Tom. 1. p.4

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