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Playing Cards--[Morden, Robert]
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description
- A brief description of England and Wales: containing a particular account of each county... As also the distance of each market town from London, by the latest survey... Embellished with maps of each county. Very useful for travellers and others, and very proper for schools... London: for H. Turpin, [c.1773]
12mo (110 x 75mm.), printed title within typographical border, engraved explanation and 52 engraved miniature playing card county maps (most without suit marks, but designations of value and some additional place names), mounted, each with descriptive text, recent morocco, map of Worcestershire slightly shaved, occasional marginal discoloration
Provenance
H.G. Fordham, bookplate
Literature
cf. Skelton p.157; Chubb CIX; Hodson III, 273
Catalogue Note
rare. This is the last known edition of Robert Morden's county map playing card series, the first edition having been issued in 1676.