Popish plot

Description

Title: Popish plot
Contributor: Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published / Created: [1679?]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: BEIN ENG76: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
Title from Keller.
French suit system.
Type: Historical.
Composition of deck: 52 [A, K, Q, J, 10-2].
Aces: Indicated by "I".
CourtCards: Kings, Queens, Jacks with rank at upper left corner.
Pip cards: Numbered X-II.
These cards apparently were copied from cards of another Popish Plot pack: they are reversed. Several variants of the Popish Plot pack exist. The workmanship of the present pack is crude, the impression, fair.
Extent: cards : 84 x 52 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.

Genre: Specimens
Early works to 1800
Pictorial works
Playing cards
Material: color ; and engraving
Resource Type: text and still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Playing cards
Popish Plot, 1678
Great Britain
Politics and Government
History
Subjects: Playing cards > England > Specimens > Early works to 1800
Popish Plot, 1678 > Pictorial works > Early works to 1800
Great Britain > Politics and Government > 1660-1688 > Early works to 1800
Great Britain > History > Charles II, 1660-1685 > Early works to 1800
Cary, Melbert B., Jr., 1892-1941 > Ownership
Cary, Mary Flagler > Ownership

Access: Public
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