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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 110

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mitation of war and conquest. Suitable marks on the cardsdesignated the four different classes of society; hearts werethe symbol of the clergy; spades (from the Italian spada, asword) were for the nobility; clubs stood for the peasantry ;and diamonds represented the citizens or burghers. Thomas… … Reduced Fac-Simile of French Copper-plate Playing Cards of the Sixteenth Century. [From Breitkopf.] J04 PRINTED AND STENCILED PLAYING CARDS. Logical Playing Cards, or Logic Realized and Made Compre-hensible through Pleasant Exercises with Pictures. The cardswere filled with mysterious symbols…

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