VAN RENSSELAER, Maria Denning King (1848-1925). The Devil?s...

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  VAN RENSSELAER, Maria Denning King (1848-1925). The Devil?s Picture-Books: A History of Playing Cards. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1890. Colored frontispiece with colored plates. Publisher?s blue cloth stamped in three colors (rubbing). FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front pastedown. Provenance: Cliff Townsend, George Johnson (bookplates). Jessel 1624. A scarce copy. -- Includes: BENHAM, W. Gurney. Playing Cards. London: Spring Books. Illustrated. Publisher?s pictorial red cloth (sunning to spine). -- CADOGAN, Lady Adelaide. Illustrated Games of Patience. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1880. Color illustrations. Publisher?s green cloth stamped in red, white, and black (rubbing to hinges). Fourth edition. -- CHATTO, William Andrew. Origin and History of Playing Cards. London: John Russell Smith, 1848. Frontispiece with color plate illustrations. Publisher?s brown cloth with titles gilt stamped. -- DICK, Harris B. (ed.) Dick?s Games of Patience. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1898. Illustrated. Publisher?s pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt and black (rubbing, soiling). -- All 8vos, 4tos. Condition generally good.
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