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 ====== Early Card Fakery ======
-In Olivier Gouyn de Poictiers 1550 work, //Le mespris et contennement de tour jeux de sorts//, he describes wide and short cards, marked cards, false shuffles and deals, nullifying the cut and deck switches. See Guillemin's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/22807/An+Illustrated+History+of+White+Magic+Before+Robert+Houdin/117|An Illustrated History of White Magic]]//, p.99. And in Ozanam (1725) are described and illustrated diagonally divided faces and the color-changing card with flap.
+In Olivier Gouyn de Poictiers' work, //Le mespris et contennement de tour jeux de sorts//, 1550, he describes wide and short cards, marked cards, false shuffles and deals, nullifying the cut and deck switches. See Fanch Guillemin's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/22807/An+Illustrated+History+of+White+Magic+Before+Robert+Houdin/117|An Illustrated History of White Magic]]//, 2002, p.99. Horizontally split faces were in use as far back as S. Rid's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/5419/The+art+of+iugling+or+legerdemaine+electronic+resource/14|The Art of Jugling or Legerdemaine]]//, 1612, n.p. And in Jaques Ozanam's //Récréations Mathématiques et Physiques//, 1694, p. 112 of the Pieper translation, diagonally divided faces and the color-changing card with flap are described and illustrated. Ozanam's book was translated in //Gibecière//, Vol.6 No.1, Winter 2011, p. 79-156. See the __[[Acrobatic Card Feke]]__ entry.
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