The invention of printing : a collection of facts and opinions descriptive of early prints and playing cards, the block-books of the fifteenth century, the legend of Lourens Janszoon Coster, of Haarlem, and the work of John Gutenberg and his associates (1878)
De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914 · New York : F. Hart · leaf 102
date ofthe first introduction r * • i -T-i The Engraver on Wood. ot playing cards. The [Frora jost Amman.] determination of this date has been made a national question,and the theme of books containing much curious information. Ambrose Firmin Didot1 quotes a scrap of poetry from aFrench romance of… … o6 printed and stenciled playing cards. Bullet says that playing cards were used in France in theyear 1376. But the testimony in confirmation of these datesis ambiguous and insufficient. The first unequivocal noticeof playing cards in France is to be found in an account bookfor the year 1392, kept…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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