An Inquiry into the Origin of Chinese Playing Cards” puts 1294 in China as the earliest reliable date that the existence of cards has been recorded, ever, in all of history, but we don’t have ...

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10. Tilley, A History of Playing Cards, 72. 11. Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin elucidates these goals in the preface to the 1664 edition of the Jeux, and particularly in the quotation at the beginning of ...

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