[A collection of maps of the counties of England and Wales]
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Type of record: Book
Title: [A collection of maps of the counties of England and Wales]
Classmark: Whitaker Collection 38
Additional creator(s): Morden, Robert (1703) (Other)
Related people: Morden, Robert
Publisher: sold by Robert Morden at the Atlas in Cornhill, Will. Berry at the Globe in the Strand, Robert Greene in Budge row and George Minikin at the King's Head in S. Martins
Publication city: [London]
Date(s): [1676]
Language: English
Size and medium: 52 maps
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298169
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003842569705181
Description
Advantage was taken of the fact that there are 52 counties in England and Wales and 52 cards in a pack. The 13 northern counties are the clubs, the eastern the hearts, the southern the diamonds and the Welsh counties the spades.
Impressions of the first edition of the playing cards published by Morden, 1676, 'The 52 countries [sic] of England and Wales', without suitmarks, mounted and bound to form a small county atlas. BM possesses a copy in which the third edition of Morden's playing cards was used.
Each card is divided into three parts: the upper contains the title of the map and the designation of the card; the centre part contains a map of a county and the lower part contains a few measurements of the county, etc.
Each king contains a small portrait of Charles II in a circle, each queen Catherine of Braganza, but the knaves are all different, showing just the heads of youngish men.
Indexed in: Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 35.
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