[All the bubbles]

[All the bubbles]

Set of 52 playing cards concerning the rise and fall of speculative "bubble" companies in 1720. A mania for speculation had spread from France to England earlier that year. By mid-summer, the South Sea Company, one of the largest of the speculative projects, filed suit against some its sma...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library), Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England, Pleasures and Pastimes
Format: Conference Proceeding Physical Object
Language:English
Published: [London] : [Thomas Bowles], [1720]
Subjects:
South Sea Company
Financial crises > Great Britain
Playing cards > England > Specimens > Early works to 1800
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720
Speculation
Great Britain > Stock companies
Engravings > 1720
Games
Playing cards
Recreations
Tax stamps (Printing)

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Call Number: GV1199 A4

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