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CHATTO, William Andrew. ~ Facts and speculations on the origin and history of Playing Cards. London: John Russell Smith, 1848.
First edition of this standard scholarly history of the playing card.
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Chatto was an expert on the art of wood engraving and brings a connoisseur’s eye to the development of graphic styles and of printing methods. He suggests a likely origin for playing cards in the traditional games of Hindustan, and traces their development in the west through the Middle Ages and Renaissance to his own time.
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DUSAULX, Jean. ~ De la Passion du Jeu, depuis les temps anciens jusqu’a nos jours. Paris: De l’Imprimerie de Monsieur, 1779.
First edition of this comprehensive study of the sociology of gambling by French writer and self-confessed ex-gambler Jean Dusaulx (1728-1799).
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Gambling was deeply-rooted in French society, especially in Paris, where all classes (including the court) were obsessed with card games and lotteries. Dusaulx sought to analyse this craze and to point out the moral depravity which it both reflected and encouraged. He includes numerous anecdotes to illustrate the irrationality of the gambler, making De la Passion du Jeu an important account of this aspect of the social history of pre-Revolutionary France.
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