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.
- Date:
- MDCCLVIII. [1758]
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Publication/Creation
London : printed for the author, and sold at his lodgings at Mr. Slade's, Grocer, in Castle-Street, near Oxford-Market, MDCCLVIII. [1758]
Physical description
[2],25,[1]p.,plates : engr.music,map ; 20.
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References note
ESTC T122891
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.