first edition
1810 · Vienna
Vienna, 1810. First Edition presumed. Near Fine. Cards made almost certainly in Vienna between 1810 and 1830, each numbered and with a charming vignette illustration, to be used in an unknown game, possibly a Rebus game, although we don't know how such cards could work in multiple Rebuses. The various illustrations are of such things as a well-dressed man admiring a statue of a seraph, two men of different walks of life conversing, a profile of a woman in a veil, three children sledding, a Napoleon legs apSart framing a "B", several dog images, a fox, an ear poised on an arrow, a sunrise in a hilly landscape, etc. The sheet is on woven paper measuring (truncated)