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 87
60 We have given two Cards of each Suit, and eight figured Cards; one of these suits is evidently intended for money, the other may probably represent the bamboo. … Their cards vary materially in size; the largest we have seen are much smaller than any European Cards now in use; some of them have the backs coloured, this is the case with the Pack from whence the present specimens are copied: in which they are of a beautiful bright crimson. . VLILE) — Aesllea\…
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