Manière de découvrir les qualités d'une personne par le tirage des cartes and Scrutateur
Description:
A fortune-telling game to determine what a person is like by drawing from a deck of cards and then consulting charts printed in the book., Stamp: J.O. Wedberg. Blind stamp: [illegible] Bibliotheket, Stockholm., and There are eight pages of charts for different types of people (that is, children, young adults, young men, young women, husbands, wives, widowers, and widows). Each chart is divided into five columns.The first column lists personal or physical characteristics, and the following four columns correspond to the four suits of the cards (in order: heart, club, diamond, spade). Under each of those columns are descriptive adjectives. On pages following the charts are seven lists of questions, with from 10 to 40 answers each, to be asked of the players, to further reveal their characters and predict their future. One player is designated to be the "scrutateur" --the scrutinizer-- who will begin the game by choosing a characteristic to be revealed and then a person to draw a card and compare it to the chart of his or her type.
Author's inscribed presentation copy to Mrs. W.H. Low. An autograph note by W.H. Low, and a proofsheet from Low's A chronicle of friendships, London, 1908, both concerning this volume are laid in. and This issue lacks the publisher's Prèface of the earlier issue. Illustrated binding. Beinecke 249.
Publisher:
J. Hetzel et Cie,
Subject (Name):
Grousset, Paschal, 1844-1909, Low, W. H., Mrs.--Autograph, Low, W. H., Mrs.--Presentation inscription from R.L. Stevenson, Roux, Georges, illustrator, and Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894--Presentation inscription to Mrs. W.H. Low
Subject (Topic):
Illustrators and Treasure Island (Imaginary place)