Playing Card Ephemera.

Playing Card Ephemera. Playing Card Ephemera. A collection of printed ephemera relating to playing cards, including an I.R Cruikshank hand-coloured engraving depicting Hans Buling (a Covent Garden mountebank); a Godissart de Cari caricature; some uncut sheets of cards (variable condition); a Rowlandson caricature; an H. S Beham woodcut; an early hand-coloured design for the Jack of Clubs; a printed cotton square depicting playing cards and dice; a hand-coloured broadside advertisement for Thomas Creswick playing cards; two Hieronymus Wierix engravings; and others. (c. 31 pieces)

Estimate:$269.11

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