Beschreibung:

Playing cards. Fairy Legend Misfitz, London: Faulkner, circa 1910, 72 chromolithographed cards comprising 24 sets of 3, each set forming a character from one of eight fairy tales or nursery rhymes, (Aladdin & the Wonderful Lamp, The Forty Thieves, Jack & the Beanstalk, Blue Beard, Beauty & the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, Sing a Song of Sixpence, The Queen of Hearts), backs with roundel and lattice pattern printed in green, one or two minor creases, a few cards with a corner tip missing, 65 x 90 cm (2.5 x 3.5 ins), together with a pack of Shakespearian Misfitz by Faulkner, circa 1907, 72 chromolithographed cards comprising 24 sets of 3, each set forming a character from Shakespeare, backs with foliate pattern printed in blue, a number of creases, edge-tears, and missing corners, 65 x 90 cm (2.5 x 3.5 ins), neither set with instructions or box, plus an early 20th century deck of Spanish playing cards printed in Barcelona by Francisco Girbau (complete, and in good condition, with neat contemporary ink annotations to upper margin of some of the cards), and a small quantity of other juvenilia and ephemera, comprising: 12 (of 14) chromolithographed cut-outs of Louis Wain cats, from Days In Catland, Father Tuck's Panorama, [1903]; 14 other similar cut-outs of animals, birds, and figures; a shaped cat book entitled Our Visitor; a miniature Austrian cold painted bronze cat in a cradle (some surface rubbing); 3 miniature books (Schloss, The English Bijou Almanac, 1836, spine deficient; Bryce, Holy Bible; an album containing Gem Tintypes); and six Victorian/Edwardian greetings cards, two with paper lace (Qty: a small carton) Fairy Legend Misfitz appears to be one of the scarcer decks in this series by Faulkner; the V&A has a set (MISC.320-1986).