The litterary cards : being a new invention to learn to read, and speedily acquire the greatest Knowledge in Calculation without Pains or Trouble. Likewise directions to play all the most usual games on the cards and dice, without either Box or Dice. The whole adorned with historical, geographical, and moral instructions, and embellished with forty-eight heads of illustrious personages, And other ornamental Engravings, curiously done on copper-plates, By the most Eminent Artists. The whole comprehending a great Variety of useful Knowledge, and peculiarly adapted for the Amusement and Instruction of the Youth of both Sexes. Wrote in English and French, by Thomas Foubert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foubert, Thomas.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Card games--Early works to 1800.

Card games.

Dice games--Early works to 1800.

Dice games.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages,25 pages, 1 unnumbered page,plates : engr.music,map ; 2⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for the author, and sold at his lodgings at Mr. Slade's, Grocer, in Castle-Street, near Oxford-Market, MDCCLVIII. [1758]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Parallel English and French texts.

Price from imprint: price One Guinea.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T122891.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.