The players' lexicon;
A late nineteenth-century American book on games, issued in New York by A. T. Thayer in 1877 and held by the Library of Congress, apparently aimed at players of card and table games. Its pictures are pen-and-ink wood engravings of men in hats seated at tables, playing and watching, with a loose, sketchy hand that suits designers wanting period gaming or tavern scenes. The rotated plates show how the prints were made sideways on the block, a detail worth noting for layout reference.
