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.
Foubert, Thomas
Category
Books
Date
1758
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3236984
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2],25,[1]p.,plates :. engr.music,map ;. fol. Accession no. 3784. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Binding: contemporary English mottled calf, rebacked and with green label.
Makers and roles
Foubert, Thomas