Playing cards--Dance music cards

52 cards, each 63 x 92mm., engraved music with hand-coloured miniature standard card figures in corner of each card, plain versos, 13 mounted in a frame, the rest in a folder attached to the back of the frame, lacking six of diamonds but with another music card supplied in its place (see below), nine of diamonds slightly damaged over symbol

Ortiz-Patiño 21; cf. Fournier, British Isles 60 (New Cotillons cards, Longman and Lukey, 1782)

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The music is mostly for cotillons although one card, "The Russian Dance", provides dance instructions.