Items matching playing cards taken from Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)
playing cards: Decorated flat and usually rectangular objects often made from cardboard or stiff paper, with decorations, used in games. These are usually divided into four suits, either Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds and Spades, or for the older Tarot cards, Cups, Wands, Stones (or wheels) and Swords.
one matching result.
Scans from The Book of Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval collected and engraved by Freeman Gage Delamotte (1814 – 1862); London, Crosby Lockwood and Co., 1879
If anyone is interested, I’ll try and do some better scans of the alphabets and examples of calligraphy and calligraphic initials in this book.
(Note: Mediæval is the older British English spelling of Mediaeval, or Medieval).
The full title page is transcribed alongside its image. This is an oblong octavo with alphabets printed in various colours including red, green and brown.
I found an online copy of a similar book by the same author at illuminated-books.com but it is for non-commercial use only.
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