Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards

Name: Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards
Author: William Andrew Chatto

by William Andrew Chatto

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Chris Curnow, Christian Boissonnas and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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2014-05-04

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Public domain in the USA.

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Playing cards -- History

About the author

William Andrew Chatto

1799–1864

A lively 19th-century English writer and journalist, he is best remembered for books on printing, illustration, and popular literature. He also wrote under the pen name Stephen Oliver, Jr., bringing a playful, curious spirit to a wide range of subjects.

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