c.1850 Daveluy, Premiére Croisade, First Crusade, Piquet Deckc. 1850 Premire Croisade, 32 32 cards, Piquet Deck Printed & Published by Daveluy, Bruges, Belgium, c. 1850 Worldwide Shipping Card measurements: 8. 8 cm x 5. 8 cm DESCRIPTION: One of Daveluy's earliest packs, the "Premire Croisade," is here presented as a piquet deck with 32 cards (of the original 52 cards?), consisting of a King, Queen, and Jack, as well as the Ace, 7, 8, 9 and 10 for each suit. The red border around the cards appears to be painted

holding both spectre & flower

x3v blank)

(LxB) 3” inches thick

And no cards for the letter “W” were issued

the 1816 Wilks edition marks the start of modern interest in Arthuriana

ex-libris markings on front pastedown

with 4 suits of 8 cards)

"saturated the bourgeois and courtly vernacular literary market

Barnaby Rudge

both front & back covers with edge wear and bumped corners

1887 gift inscription

but the binding is still tight