c.1760 Old French Playing Cards Lyon 32/32 Standing Courts

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c.1760 Old French Playing Cards Lyon 32/32 Standing Courtsc. 1760 Lyonnais Playing Cards 32 32 Published by Unknown Lyon, France, c. 1760 1780 Worldwide Shipping Description: 1760 1780, last Lyonnais pattern, painted stencil, standing courts. measurements: 8. 2 cm x 5. 5 cm The original design for Lyonnais cards changed in 1711, and the Knave of Spades was given a pipe to smoke. In 1751, the King of Clubs was given an Orb, while the Queens of Hearts and Spades lost their sceptres, and subsequently, all four

a few cards with occasional splitting of paper

with Atlas of 60 plates in 3vols (2 vols bound in 1

Tucker Brooke

2 leaves of plates : illustrations (engravings)

Some plates have haphazard watercolour highlights in brown/beige

slight stains and patina

Water and moisture damage is apparent throughout the book

Grimaud but not Paris

· Style: Great Mogul (old frizzle ace)

Spine sunned (shows discolouration from the sun)

5 in X 6 in

(Aldus Manutius) August 1502