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Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards

Note 275 — Chapter IV · OF THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF CARDS AND THE MARKS OF THE SUITS.

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Those cards are the rarest of all Jost Amman's numerous works. The first title of the volume is "Jodoci Ammanni, civis Noribergensis Charta Lusoria, Tetrastichis illustrata per Janum Heinrichum Scroterum de Gustrou." Then follows a long explanatory title in German, and the imprint, "Gedruct zu Nüurnberg, durch Leonhardt Heussler, Anno, 1588." There is a copy of the work in the British Museum.

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