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 106
entioned in a History of Playing Cards may be specification of popular games in found many fac-similes of early Hin- the Stadtholdt Book of Augsburg dostanee cards, some of which, we for the year 1274. The ordinances are told, were engraved on plates of of the town of Nuremberg for the ivory. These… … Chinese Playing Cards. [From Breitkopf.] Thehaswhowho l 1 l« 111 Ull.llA.UpiiJ introduction of this oriental pastime in civilized Europe,been attributed to the Moors of Spain, to eastern Jew^ (): jtraded on the shores of the Mediterranean, to Gypsiesmade their appearance in Germany at the beginning…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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