Credits
Thanks are due to the following individuals who have contributed articles or images of cards from their collections:
Tola Abodunnrin, Peter Mark Adams, Greg Alonzo, Shirley Ashman, Lee Asher, Gene Barry, Amit Benyovits, Jack Berkus, Becky Bevan, Francis Bevers, John Bevin, Erik Blåsjö, Scott Blue, Stephen Bohrer, Pete Bond, Albinas Borisevičius, Peter Bowie, Sallie Boyd, David Buck, Peter Burnett, David & Jackie Butler, Steve Campbell, Alberto Campos, Dean Canter, Sean Comstock, Mike Cooper, Paul Cotner, Michael Curtis, John Daniels, Neil Darbyshire, Frederic C. Detwiller, Emma Donovan, Marc Dorst, Dan Dragojevich, Alison Dunne, Camelia Elias, Vincent Ellul, Peter Endebrock, David Epps, Alan Ferg, Steve Ferguson, David Fiorito, Juan Fontenla, Lauren Forestell, John Gallagher, Enrique García Martín, Tony Gibbs-Murray, Richard Giorgio, Steven & Marsha Goldblatt, Mike Goodall, Linda Green, Richard Green, Andy Grigg, Per Kristian Guntvedt, Tony Hall, Mark Hayward, Ib Hedegaard, Hans Hinrup, Mike Jacobs, Saskia Jansen, K. Frank Jensen, Linda Johnson, Siobhan Johnson, Barbara Jones, Dalu Jones, David C. Kelzenberg, Jukka Kettunen, Valentin Krasavin, Alex Lamont, Robert S. Lancaster, Pavel Langer, Anthony Lee, Larry Lefkowitz, John Lillyquist, Ken Lodge, Ruth Mancino, Maria Marcet, Angela Marsh, Cheryl McDonagh, Stuart McEwan, Kody McGregor, Tracy Moffatt, Claire Moore, Mike J. Morrissey, Joop Muller, José Manuel Murcia, Larry and Tammy Northup, Diane O'Donovan, Dudley Ollis, Cunie Out, José Luiz Pagliari, Tim Paine, Daria Luisa Patanè, Phil Patenaude, Marc Pavone, Diego Peña, Juan José Pérez-Castejón, Alberto Pérez González, John Perry, Joseph Pierson, Rex Pitts, Matt Probert, Jon Randall, Chris Rayner, Jay Recher, Kathey Renault, Elizabeth Richmond, Ruud Ruitenberg, Juan José Ruiz, Peter Scarlett, Klaus-Jürgen Schultz, Martin Shaw, Felipe da Silveira, John Sings, Charles Smythe, Roddy Somerville, Rod Starling, Richard Strand, Elaine Stringer, Lawrence Sullivan, Paul Symons, Jean Szawiola, Pauline Tait, Nick Thomas, Barney Townshend, Mike & Daf Tregear, Maria Alessandra Umiltà, Luz Ángela Vargas, Pat Waddington, Jan Walls, Melissa Walter, Donald Welsh, Adam West-Watson, Samten de Wet, Becky Winter, Lotte Wintle, Richard Woodley, Chris Woodward, Touya Yabuhashi, Valentin Zadunaisky. Also: Archivo General de la Nación (Buenos Aires), the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Nationaal Museum van de Speelkaart, Turnhout (Belgium), the Archaeological Service of the Municipality of Dordrecht (Netherlands), the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards Collection and the London Metropolitan Archives, City of London Corporation.
Playing Card Bibliography
The following works have been consulted in preparing this website:
Agudo Ruiz, Juan de Dios: Los Naipes en España, Diputación Foral de Álava, 2000
Alexander, J. J. G: The Master of Mary of Burgundy: a Book of Hours for Englebert of Nassau, The Bodleian Library, Oxford and George Braziller, Inc., New York, 1970
d'Allemagne, Henry-René: Les cartes à jouer du XIVe au XXe siècle, Hachette et Cie, Paris, 1906. 2 vols.
Arias Divito, Juan Carlos: La Renta de los Naipes en Santa Fe (1779-1810), in LA SOTA no.28, Asescoin, Madrid, March 2003
Arienti, Vito: Il Solleone, dieci anni di azioni promozionali, editoriali, provocatorie di amicizia, di collezionismo nel mondo Europeo della cartagiocofilia 1969-1978, Edizioni del Solleone, Lissone (Milano) 1978.
Autenboer, Dr Eugeen van: The Turnhout Playing Card Industry 1826-1976, Aurelia Books, Brussels 1976
Bermúdez Plata, Cristóbal: Contrato sobre Fabricación de Naipes en Nueva España (1945), reprinted in LA SOTA no.28, Asescoin, Madrid, March 2003
Bethel, Leslie (ed): Argentina Since Independence, Cambridge University Press, 1993
Brearley, Douglas: A History of Waddingtons, in-house publication 1975-76
Burnett, P.P.: “Russian playing card history: from the beginnings to 1917”, published in The Playing Card, 13 (4), May 1985, pp. 97-113 and reprinted in The Playing Card, 40 (1), Jul-Sep 2011, pp. 41-57 download here►
Cárdenas Martin, Mercedes: Dados y Naipes del Siglo XVI en una Huaca del Valle del Rimac, Peru, Boletín de Lima Vol.XXI, No.116 (1999) pp.42-60.
Chamorro Fernández, María Inés: Léxico del naipe del Siglo de Oro, Ediciones Trea, S.L., Gijón, 2005.
Chatto, William Andrew: Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards, J R Smith, London, 1848 (online here)
Christensen, Thomas: River of Ink: literature, history and art, Counterpoint, Berkeley, Ca, 2014.
Cortez, Ana: The Playing Card Oracles, Two Sisters Press, 2002
Cremers, Filip: Belasting is Troef, Nationaal Museum van de Speelkaart, Turnhout, 1992.
Cremers, Filip: Kaartenmakers in Wallonië - Cartiers en Wallonie, Nationaal Museum van de Speelkaart, Turnhout, 1994
Cuello Martinell, María Ángeles: La Renta de los Naipes en Nueva España, Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos de Sevilla (1966), reprinted in LA SOTA no.28, Asescoin, Madrid, March 2003
D'Allemagne, Henry René: Cartes à Jouer du XIVe au XXe Siècle, Librairie Hachette et Cie, Paris, 1906, excerpts re-published in Antique Playing Cards: a Pictorial Treasury, selected and arranged by Carol Belanger Grafton, Dover Publications, 1996
Dawson, Tom & Judy: The Hochman Encyclopedia of American Playing Cards, U.S. Games Systems Inc., 2000
De Hamel, Christopher: Medieval Craftsmen, Scribes and Illuminators, British Museum Press, London, 1992
De la Rue and Co. Ltd, Thomas: International Playing Card Conference and Exhibition, conference agenda and delegates’ information pack including transcripts of papers, De la Rue & Co., London, 1957
Denning, Trevor: The Playing-Cards of Spain, Cygnus Arts, London, 1996
Denning, Trevor and Schirò, Joseph: Maltese Dragon Cards, in “The Playing Card” Vol.30 no.1, July-Aug 2001, IPCS, England
Depaulis, Thierry: Tarot, jeu et magie, exposition catalogue, Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, 1984
Depaulis, Thierry: Playing cards and the Origins of Woodcut in International Playing Card Society & Asescoin Conference transcripts, Vitoria-Gasteiz, September 2001
Depaulis, Thierry: L’apparition de la xylographie et l'arrivée des cartes à jouer en Europe, in Nouvelles de L'estampe, No.185-6, Paris, December 2002
Das Stuttgarter Kartenspiel: Introduction by Heribert Meurer, translated by George Brown, Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart, 1979
Dobkin de Rios, Marlene: Fate, Fortune & Mysticism in the Peruvian Amazon - the Septrionic Order and the Naipes Cards, Park Street Press, 2011
Douglas, Gordon: Astra Games, in ‘Newsletter’ Vol.20, No.73, English Playing Card Society, February 2002
Dummett, Michael: The Game of Tarot: From Ferrara to Salt Lake City, Duckworth, 1980
Dummett, Sir Michael: How Little We Know: A New Hypothesis for the Origin of the Portuguese Type, in “The Playing Card” Vol.31 no.1, July-Aug 2002, IPCS, England
Evans, Joan (editor): The Flowering of the Middle Ages, Thames and Hudson, London, 1966
Farley, Helen: A Cultural History of Tarot, published in 2009 by I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd.
Ferg, Alan: See: Wayland, 2006
Field, Albert: Transformation Playing Cards, U.S. Games Systems Inc., Stamford, CT, 1987
Fisher, Margaret Sargent: The Devil's Picture Books, The Yale University Library Gazette, Vol. 20, No. 3 (January 1946), pp. 41-47
Fournier Museum/Fundación NatWest: Naipes Británicos y su Influencia Internacional, Diputación Foral de Alava, 1993
Frazão, Fernanda: No tempo em que jogar às cartas era proibido: Séculos XV e XVI em Portugal, Apenas Livros Lda, Lisboa 2003
Frazão, Fernanda: As Cartas de Jogar Constitucionais: História de um Baralho (with English translation), Apenas Livros Lda, Lisboa 2003
García Martín, Enrique: La Baraja Politica Moderna, privately published, Madrid, 1991 (courtesy of the author)
García Martín, Enrique: Los Naipes en el Cono Sur Americano, in LA SOTA no.17, Asescoin, Madrid, October 1997
García Martín, Enrique: Las Barajas de Símbolos Españoles en América, in LA SOTA no.25, Asescoin, Madrid, September 2001
Gardiner, Mary and Hayter, John: Catalogue of Happy Family Games (Promotional Packs), EPCS/privately published, 1997
Garrigue, Jean-Pierre: La Carte à Jouer a Perpignan du Moyen-Âge a nos jours, Sociéte Agricole, Scientifique et Littéraire des Pyrénéees-Orientales, 2012
Garrigue, Jean-Pierre: La Carte à Jouer en Catalogne XIV & XVI siècles, Les Presses Littéraires, 2015
Goodall, Michael H: Minor British Playing Card Makers of the Nineteenth Century, (vols 1-4), Woking, 1996-8
Goodall, Michael H: Chas Goodall & Son: The Family and The Firm 1820-1922, Woking, 2000
Goodall, Michael H: Alf Cooke Ltd: Printer and Playing-Card Maker, in “The Playing Card” Vol.31 no.4, Jan-Feb 2003, IPCS, England.
Goodall, Michael H, Sue Gosling and Keith Bonnick (with contributions by John Berry & Ken Lodge): Playing-Cards of the Cuming Museum, in “The Playing Card” Vol.31 no.6, May-June 2003, IPCS, England.
See list of Books on Playing Card History by Mike Goodall►
Hargrave, Catherine Perry: A History of Playing Cards and a Bibliography of Cards and Gaming, Dover Publications, New York, 1966
Hinrup, Hans J: L.P.Holmblad - Danish Playing Card Maker: The Tarock Packs, in "The Playing Card" Vol.31 no.5, March-April 2003, IPCS, England.
Hoffmann, Detlef: The Playing Card, an illustrated history, Edition Leipzig, 1973
Hoffmann, Detlef and Dietrich, Margot: Die Dondorf’schen Luxus-Spielkarten, Harenberg, Dortmund, 1983
Houseman, Lorna: The House that Thomas Built, the story of De La Rue, Chatto & Windus, London, 1968
Husband, Timothy B: The Cloisters’ Playing Cards and other hand-painted packs of the fifteenth century, Piatnik, Vienna, 1994
Husband, Timothy B: The World in Play, Luxury Cards 1430-1540, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2015
Jenni, Ulrike, Dr.: The Ambras Court Hunting Deck, Piatnik, Vienna, 1995
Jones, Owen: The Grammar of Ornament, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1972
King, Francis: The Encyclopedia of Fortune Telling, Octopus Books, London, 1988
Kleczek, Marian: Cracow Playing-Card Manufacturers in Modern Times, in “The Playing Card” Vol.29 no.1, July-Aug 2000, IPCS, England. (English translation by Peter Endebrock).
Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut: Gutenberg and the Master of the Playing Cards, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1966
Lodge, Ken: The Standard English Pattern (second revised and enlarged edition), Bungay, Suffolk, 2010
Lodge, Ken and Bostock, Paul: Wood-block and stencil. English card-makers and their wood-block cards: a classification of their distinguishing features, Norwich, 2014
Longley, Dianne: Cats, Cakes, Clothes and Cups: a personal deck of playing cards, limited edition and accompanying booklet published by Illumination Press, The Print Studio, Adelaide 1999
Mann, Sylvia: Collecting Playing Cards, Arco Publications, 1966
Mann, Sylvia: All Cards on the Table, Jonas Verlag/Deutsches Spielkarten-Museum, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, 1990
Marotta, Florencia: Sellados e Impuestos en Naipes Argentinos, Buenos Aires, 2007
Mayer, L.A. Mamluk Playing Cards, ed. R. Ettinghausen and O. Kurz, Leiden, 1971.
Mētra, Jānis: Playing Cards of Latvia, in “The Playing Card” Vol.32 no.1, July-August 2003, IPCS, England.
Mētra, Jānis: Latvijas Kārtis (Latvian Playing Card Book), SIA “Atmata”, Riga, 2006.
Mētra, Jānis: Playing Cards of Estonia, in “The Playing Card” Vol.32 no.4, Jan-Feb 2004, IPCS, England.
Morley, Henry T: Old and Curious Playing Cards, Bracken Books, London, 1989
Murray Cards (International) Limited: Cigarette Card Values, London, 2003
O’Donoghue, Freeman M: Catalogue of the collection of playing cards bequeathed by Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Trustees of the British Museum, London, 1901 [digital version here]
O’Donovan, Diane: Di Gravio, A Rational Disposition: the internalised world of the medieval scholar and the pack of paper tokens, unpublished paper, courtesy of the author, Newcastle (Australia) 2002
O’Donovan, Diane: John of Rheinfelden’s ludus cartorum and the divisions of the world in 1377, unpublished paper, courtesy of the author, Newcastle (Australia) 2001
Pardo, Román F: Los Primeros Naipes Criollos Impresos en Buenos Aires, number 6 of “ALADA” ( ASOCIACIÓN LIBREROS ANTICUARIOS DE LA ARGENTINA) Buenos Aires, 1953, pp 5 to 12
Pérez González, Alberto: Los Naipes de Cádiz, in LA SOTA no.13, Asescoin, Madrid, October 1995
Pérez González, Alberto with Fulgencio Carrión and Enrique García Martin: Simeon Durá, La perfección de un estilo, in LA SOTA no.14, Asescoin, Madrid, March 1996
Pérez González, Alberto: Novedades de Pasado, in LA SOTA no.26, Asescoin, Madrid, March 2002
Plummer, John: The Hours of Catherine of Cleves, George Braziller, Inc., New York, [undated] c. 1970
Pratesi, Franco: Cinco Siglos de Naipes en España, in La Sota nº 16, Asescoin, Madrid, March 1997, pp.27-51
Rothe, Edith: Mediaeval Book Illumination in Europe, Thames and Hudson, London, 1968
Ruh, Max and Ruegg, Max: AGM AGMüller: 175 Years of Playing Card Manufacture, in “The Playing Card” Vol.32 no.3, Nov-Dec 2003, IPCS, England
Ruiz, Juan José: Naipes de Colección, in “El Coleccionista” no.24, Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 1990, pp 14-17
Sans Ferrán, José María: Unos Naipes de Piel, Colomer Munmany, S.A., Vich, 1971
Segeth, Uwe-Volker: Spielkarten Jugendstil und Art Déco, Edition Christian Brandstätter, Wien, 1994
Seguin, Jean-Pierre: Cinq siècles de cartes à jouer en France, Bulletin du vieux papier (Paris), 1963
Silvera Antúnez, Marcos: Historia de los Naipes en el Uruguay 1724-2015, Ediciónes el Galeón, Montevideo, 2015
Šťáhlavsky, Zdeněk: A 19th Century Czech Nationalistic Pack, in “The Playing Card” Vol.32 no.6, May-June 2004, IPCS, England
Starling, Rod: The Art and Pleasures of Playing Cards, Xlibris Corporation, 2008, 2010
Suarez Alba, Alberto: A Vitoria, Barajas, Diputación Foral de Alava/Museo "Fournier" de Naipes, 1991
Tena Fuentes, Salvador: Testimoni Històric de Naipes Comas, N.E.G.S.A, 1994
Tesnière, Marie-Hélène and Delcourt, Thierry (ed): Bestiaire du Moyen Âge: les animaux dans les manuscrits, Somogy Éditions d'Art, Paris, 2004
Thomas, Nicholas: Collecting Australian playing cards in “Antiques and Collectables for Pleasure & Profit”, Coffs Harbour NSW, issue 28, August/September 2008
Thorpe, John G: The Playing Cards of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards, InterCol London, 1991
Thorpe, John G: The Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards of the City of London, WCMPC, London, 2001
Tilley, Roger: Playing Cards, Octopus Books, London, 1973
Tilley, Roger: A History of Playing Cards, Studio Vista, London, 1973
Trefl-Kraków Sp. z.o.o: Katalog for 1999 and 2002, Cracow, Poland
Vine, David: Vintage Tarot Texts, Editions letarot.com, 2022
Watson, Victor: The Waddingtons Story, Northern Heritage Publications, 2008
Wayland, Harold & Virginia, Ferg, Alan: Playing Cards of the Apaches, a study in cultural adaptation, Screenfold Press, 2006
Willshire, W. H.: A Descriptive Catalogue of Playing and Other Cards in the British Museum, Trustees of the British Museum, 1876, reprint 1975.
Wintle, Simon: A 'Moorish' Sheet of Playing Cards, in “The Playing Card” Vol.15 no.4, 1987, IPCS, England
Wintle, Simon and Peña, Diego: Argentinian Playing Cards (part 1), in “The Playing Card” Vol.29 no.5, Mar-Apr 2001, IPCS, England
Wintle, Simon: Argentinian Playing Cards (part 2), in “The Playing Card” Vol.30 no.3, Nov-Dec 2001, IPCS, England
Wintle, Simon and Flaiban, Diego: Ernesto Flaiban, Playing-Card manufacturer of Buenos Aires (1936-70), in “The Playing Card” Vol.30 no.6, May-June 2002, IPCS, England
See also the World of Playing Cards Downloads Centre.
