Search Results: a descriptive catalogue of playing and by willshire william hughes

Trustees Of The British Museum, 1876. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1876. 72 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Rough cut pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The A descriptive catalogue of playing and other cards in the British museum, accompanied by a concise general history of the subject and remarks on cards of divination and of a politico-historical charac.

Paperback / softback. New.

British Museum Press. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Amsterdam: British Museum Publications Limited, 1975. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Quarto. 470pp illustrated. A fine copy in like dj . A few faint spots on the front cover. of the jacket.

London: British Museum Publications Limited, 1975. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine in As New dust jacket. Unchanged reprint of the original edition , London 1876. 360 pages. Preface by Sylvia Mann (1975). Descriptive Catalogue of Playing and Other Cards in the British Museum (supplementary portion) includes descriptions of different European cards, an index, and various black-and-white as well as colored plates. A couple pages have slight creases made by during the publication process.; 6 1/2 x 9 3/4

London: British Museum Press, 1975. Reprint of 1876 edition. Vertical crease to rear board, stamp or sticker (?) removed from front free endpaper (also from front of dust-wrapper), otherwise very good. Frontispiece, 7 colour plates and 16 black and white illustrations. New introduction by Sylvia Mann. Dust-wrapper with tears/losses has been competently and firmly repaired. Extra postage outside the UK.. Hardcover. Very Good/Acceptable.

The Trustees Of The British Muse, 1876-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback- this book is a library rebind. Clean copy in good condition.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The A descriptive Catalogue of Playing and other Cards in the British Museum:Accompanied by a concise general History of the Subject and Remarks on Cards etc..

Amsterdam: S.Emmering, 1975. cloth, dust jacket. Playing Cards. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (xii),360; viii,87, with 23 additional pages of plates. 2 volumes in one. First published in 1876 in two volumes. Miss Sylvia Mann wrote the following in her preface: "Recently it has become one of the rarest and most sought after items of card literature: it is a great pleasure to know that once again its contents will be more easily available to the serious collector and historian alike...but the aura of the work is that of a serious scholar with an extremely wide knowledge of prints and printing bringing his resources to bear in illuminating many aspects of what was then, and still remains, a very special subject." Contains detailed descriptions of early French and English engraved packs.

Amsterdam: S. Emmering, 1975. . 8vo, 24cm. Pp. x,360,viii,87, frontisp., 23 plates (incl. 7 coloured), bibliogr., indices. Orig. green cloth with gilt backstrip lettering in dustjacket. Fine copy, as new. - Facsimile reprint of the original edition (London 1877) including the supplement, with a new short preface by Sylvia Mann.

Paperback / softback. New.

London : British Museum, 1975. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 360,vii,87 pp.,xxiii p of plates ill(some col) 25 cm. Subjects; British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings. Catalogs. Print Room. Cards Exhibitions. Playing cards. Tarot cards.

1876. Chiswick Press. Wittingham and Wilkins. London. 1876. First edition. 4to. Original brown buckram gilt, very splattered to upper board, cloth split along upper joint and lacks small portion to head of spine, though binding is sound. x, 360, 87 pages (description of plates) plus 23 plates at rear, some in colour, some sepia. Frontis. Occasional light foxing otherwise a clean copy.

[London] : Printed by order of the Trustees, 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands are worn. Text remains in fine condition. Previous owner's bookplate. Physical description; [i-v] vi-x, [1-3] 4-360, [i-v] vi-viii, [1-3] 4-87 p., 23 plates (part col.) : ill ; 26.5 cm. Subjects; British Museum — Catalogs. British Museum — Catalogues. Card games — History — Catalogs. Card games — Social aspects — Catalogs.

Printed By Order of the Trustees , 1876. Hardback, gilt titles to spine. x, 360pp, vi, 87pp, 23 plates at rear, 8 of which are coloured or partly coloured. 1st edition 1876. Supplement at rear with separate titlepage, dated 1877. Binding a little worn, with small losses to spine ends. A rather pleasing copy. (bs35c). 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

London: Trustees of the British Museum. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Color and b/w; x, 360pp+viii, 87pp+xxiii plates pages; Publisher's blindstamped black cloth with gilt printed spine. Contains 23 plates on heavier paper at the end [color and b/w]. This is a catalog accompanied by a concise history and commentary, .

London: The British Museum, 1975. A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. An essential volume for the study of the cards, with much detail of various Tarot decks, and other divinatory and playing cards. Reprint of the original edition of 1876, and the 1877 supplement appended with a plate section of 24 full page plates, seven in color. [x], 360 pages; [viii], 88 pages. Royal octavo.

London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1876. First edition. Hardcover. Good. London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1876. First edition. Good. First edition, approx. 10.5'' by 6.5''. Original black cloth with gilt titles on spine & blind embossed decoration on covers. A little edge wear, particularly to spine (see pictures). X + 360pp with supplementary portion (published 1877) bound in with main volume, viii + 87pp, illustrated with frontispiece and 23 other plates (7 hand coloured)."Accompanied by a concise general history of the subject and remarks on cards of divination and of a politico-historical character.' Plate 20 is loose & binding a bit cracked at rear pastedown. Ex reference library with minimal markings, presentation bookplate on front pastedown & pictorial bookplate on rear pastedown. No other obvious library markings, the inner book is generally clean & in good + condition.***Heavy & may require extra overseas postage***

The British Museum. Used - Very Good. 1876. Cloth, ex-library, 360 + 32 pp., with 23 plates (7 in color). Cloth worn with boards a bit bowed; some minor staining to the edges of some of the plates - does not effect illustration. Overall a Very Sound copy. (Subject: Antiques & Collectibles.)