We're loving the latest from Madrid-based, book-friendly, illustrator Fernando Vicente. This time around it's a deck of playing cards for Nordicalibros featuring a slew of literary portraits created over the years by Vincente. Just think of all the new card, and/or drinking, games that await. Previously on Book Patrol: Portraits by Fernando Vicente Fernando Vicente illustrates The Communist Manifesto In the Stacks: Playing Cards at the Beinecke
In the Stacks: Playing Cards at the Beinecke
One of the most extensive collections of playing cards ever assembled resides at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.Known as the Cary Collection, it consists of over 2600 packs of cards, 460 sheets of uncut card papers, and 150 wood blocks for printing cards. The Collection contains standard cards from 16 European countries and 6 countries in the Western Hemisphere, as well as nonstandard cards from 23 European and 3 Western Hemisphere countries, and its content represents over 500 years of cardmaking.The "nonstandard" cards include subjects like: Advertisement, Cartomancy, Education, History, Humor, and Souvenir types, many not intended...