Jeu de cartes historiques, contenant un abrégé de l'histoire romaine : orné des portraits des principaux personnages, gravés d'après les meilleures médailles, et destiné à l'instruction et à l'amusement de la jeunesse des deux sexes / par E. Jouy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jouy, Étienne de, 1764-1846.

Contributor:

Vanackère, Nicolas-Joseph-Désiré, 1755- printer.

Nicolle, Gabriel-Henri, 1767-1829, bookseller.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Playing cards.

History.

Rome--History--To 510 B.C--Miscellanea.

Rome--History--Republic, 510-30 B.C--Miscellanea.

Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D--Miscellanea.

Card games.

Playing cards--Specimens.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

Specimens.

Trivia and miscellanea.

Physical Description:

48 cards in 1 box : portraits ; 10 cm + 1 sheet

Place of Publication:

A Lille : Chez Vanackere, libr.-impr., Grand-Place : Et a Paris : Chez H. Nicolle, libraire, rue de Seine, Hôtel de la Rochefoucault, no. 12, [1820?]

Notes:

Title from card affixed to container.

Nicolle was resident at rue de Seine, no. 12, from 1814-1820. Vanackère ceased printing in 1811 and resumed in 1820. Cf. their entries in CERL Thesaurus (thesaurus.cerl.org) [Internet resource].

Pasteboard case (11 x 7.5 x 2.5 cm.) containing 48 cards, each with portrait and biography of a figure from Roman history, and sheet with directions for play ("Règles du Jeu"). Cf. O'Donoghue.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: cards VIII, XXXV-XXXVI, and XXXVIII-XLII wanting; sheet ("Règles de Jeu") wanting.

Penn Libraries copy: box damaged; card I closely cropped at left margin with loss of border.

Cited in:

Manson, M. Livres pour l'enfance ... publiés en français de 1789 à 1799, 252.2

O'Donoghue, F.M. Catalogue of the collection of playing cards ... British Museum, no. 168

OCLC:

870917527