[Rarebooks] FS: 1895 American Poker Chromolithographed Playing Card Book

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, Ephemera & Photographs]

It’s All in the Draw.

Copyright 1895 by C.E.H. Brelsford & C.W. Dimick.
Printed by Forbes Lithograph Mfg. Co., of Boston in 1895.

A rather delightful late Victorian chromolithographed poker book, with 
rhymes for the ascending hands written by C.[harles] E.[dgar] H.[ilburn] 
Brelsford (gambler, hunter, sporting magazine writer), and C.[harles] W. 
Dimick (salesman for U.S. Cartridge Co. and a competitive trap shooter), 
featuring Bicycle Playing Cards.

Each hand is illustrated surrounded by the heads of annoyed, genial or 
incredulous card players (many smoking cigars), and each rhyme is 
playfully interspersed with pictures and ornate lettering of the sort 
that people get up to after an evening at the poker table, with seven or 
8 scotches in them. It all comes to the ultimate climax with a Royal 
Flush, afte which the back cover features an illustration of the tired 
saloon keeper with a candle in his hand showing a party of weary players 
out the door. All good masculine fun, and presumably we all learned 
something.

Card covers & pages, string bound. 9.25”x5.5”, 10 leaves total, 
including the covers. Front cover with chip on the lower corner, gouge 
on the upper edge. Some soil the covers, and some light scattered soil 
internally. [49768]  $375

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