Humphreys, James Y., 1783?-1850, playing card maker
Published / Created:
[1800?]
Call Number:
USA204
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
BEIN USA204: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title from Ace of Spades., French suit system., Type: Historical., Composition of deck: 52 [A, K, Q, J, 10-2]., Aces: AS: [eagle] / E. PLURIBUS UNUM / [pip] / J.Y. HUMPHREYS., and CourtCards: KS: Andrew Jackson; QS: Athena; JS: King Phillip; KH: George Washington; QH: Venus; JH: Red Jacket; KD: John Quincy Adams; QD: Justice; JD: Gy-ant-wachia; KC: Thomas Jefferson; QC: Ceres; JC: Joseph Brant.
BEIN ENG38 : From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., Latin/Italian suit system, modified (swords, wands, pentacles, cups), Type: Cartomancy., Composition of deck: 78 [A, K, Q, C, J, 10-2, trumps I-XXI, Fool]., CourtCards: Cavaliers are called knights; jacks are labelled pages., Pipcards and Jokers: Pip cards numbered X-II., Trumps: Single figure trumps; II: THE HIGH PRIESTESS; V: THE HIEROPHANT., The cards appeared originally with Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1910. All cards bear the designer's monogram. Suits of batons and money are labelled wands and pentacles., and Label indicates that the pack was printed in Great Britian and distributed by the Church of Light, Los Angeles.
Erratic ecologies field station and Emergent apparatus for speculative research
Description:
BEIN 2020 +3: Edition no. 1; with copper printing plate, as issued. Signed by the artists., Title from container., "Comprising sixty two copper-foiled episodes; two lengths of solid copper bar; one block of quarried Stony Creek granite; one archival blueprint"--Container., and "A published event ... on the occasion of their 31 days as Ruth Stephan Fellows at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscipt Library, Yale University, CT"--Blueprint.
"London published July 4th 1801 by S. Fisher."--Frontispiece., Signatures: [B]² C-E⁶., Frontispiece title: The Ship's crew in consternation, on being shot, [...] Indians from the trunk of a large hollow tree., and Old stab-stitch holes in the blank inner margin. Later peach paper wrappers, title in manuscript to the upper wrapper. Preserved in a brown cloth folding case and crushed morocco-backed slipcase; slipcase lettered in gilt. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by S. Fisher, no. 10, St. John's Lane, Clerkenwell and Also sold by T. Hurst, no. 32, Paternoster-row
Subject (Topic):
Adventure stories, Indians of the West Indies, and Chapbooks, English
Caption titles., Two verses, each printed in one column with woodcut illustration at head., "Verses on the death of her Majesty" has imprint: Pitts printer and wholesale toy warehouse, Great St. Andrew Street 7 Dials., "To the memory of our beloved Queen Caroline" to the tune of "While pensive I thought on my love.", First line of "To the memory of our beloved Queen Caroline": The fair rose of England is dead ..., First line of "Verses on the death of her Majesty Queen Caroline": Hark! the doleful knell is tolling ..., and Laid on to recent blue sugar paper. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed at Pitts, wholesale toy warehouse, 6, Great St. Andrew Street, 7 Dials
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821.