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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 · London, R. Triphook · leaf 236

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193 The ten, as in the other suits, is a female richly dressed, with a wine pot in her hand. The Knave is the following spirited representation of the Lands Knechte; it will serve as an example of the masterly and dashing style in which the larger figures on these cards are executed. Et tua castra… … Div Hab th Calter Bache nun Cl Jar gedtent, Was ist metn toh? Armut, Brauckhett, und Codes peti, Heb ich den trewen Wiener mein, The Kmght, as inthe former cases, represents a nobleman, but with a wine pot in his hand. 2c

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