Dickens (Charles).- Card game.- The Characters of Charles Dickens. An interesting game, 52 playing cards, a rules card, and a 'Receive one counter' card, printed in red and black and with purple backs, some spotting or foxing, original pictorial board box and slip-case, lower panel loose, ?lacking an upper panel, faded and rubbed, 980 x 760mm, Jaques & Son, Hatton Garden, [c.1870].

⁂ Rare, with WorldCat recording only two sets (Harvard and Chicago). We can trace only one other set at auction (our rooms, 2022, without rules and 'Receive one counter' cards, £2600 hammer). The 52 cards consist of 13 groups of four characters from the works of Dickens. Of these 13 groups, ten feature an image and description of a character (Oliver Twist, Barnaby Rudge, Curiosity Shop (sic), Chuzzlewit, Pickwick, Dombey & Son, The Chimes, Cricket on the Hearth, The Haunted Man and Bleak House), and three feature text only (Little Dorrit, David Copperfield and The Christmas Books).