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The Origins of Wonder

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-The Biseauté Pack, using trimmed, tapered cards is today most commonly called a Stripper Deck. This prepared pack was first devised for cheating at gambling. It is recorded in the expanded 1769-70 edition of Gilles-Edme Guyot's //Nouvelles récréations, physiques et mathématiques//, p. 13 of the unpublished Hugard translation, and William Hooper's //Rational recreations//, 1802, p. [[http://askalexander.org/display/18883/Rational+Recreations+In+which+the+Principles+of+Numbers+and+Natural+Philosophy+Are+clearly+and+copiously+elucidated/291|247]] and [[http://askalexander.org/display/18883/Rational+Recreations+In+which+the+Principles+of+Numbers+and+Natural+Philosophy+Are+clearly+and+copiously+elucidated/308|262]].+The Biseauté Pack, using trimmed, tapered cards is today most commonly called a Stripper Deck. This prepared pack was first devised for cheating at gambling. It is recorded in the expanded 1769-70 edition of Gilles-Edme Guyot's //Nouvelles récréations, physiques et mathématiques//, p. 13 of the unpublished Hugard translation, and William Hooper's //Rational Recreations Vol. 4, Second Edition//, 1782, p. [[http://askalexander.org/display/18883/Rational+Recreations+In+which+the+Principles+of+Numbers+and+Natural+Philosophy+Are+clearly+and+copiously+elucidated/291|247]] and [[http://askalexander.org/display/18883/Rational+Recreations+In+which+the+Principles+of+Numbers+and+Natural+Philosophy+Are+clearly+and+copiously+elucidated/308|262]].
  
 By the nineteenth century, the tapered cards had become well established in conjuring literature; e.g., Jean-Nicholas Ponsin's //La Magie blanche dévoilée//, 1853, p. 149, W. H. Cremer's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/43192/The+secret+out+or+One+thousand+tricks+with+cards+and+other+recreations/113|The Secret Out]]//, 1859, p. 111, Prof. Hoffmann's //Modern Magic//, 1876, p. 60, August Roterberg's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/34138/New+era+card+tricks/63|New Era Card Tricks]]//, 1897, p. 55, and Theodore DeLand's manufactured trick decks, such as his Dollar Deck, 1912. By the nineteenth century, the tapered cards had become well established in conjuring literature; e.g., Jean-Nicholas Ponsin's //La Magie blanche dévoilée//, 1853, p. 149, W. H. Cremer's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/43192/The+secret+out+or+One+thousand+tricks+with+cards+and+other+recreations/113|The Secret Out]]//, 1859, p. 111, Prof. Hoffmann's //Modern Magic//, 1876, p. 60, August Roterberg's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/34138/New+era+card+tricks/63|New Era Card Tricks]]//, 1897, p. 55, and Theodore DeLand's manufactured trick decks, such as his Dollar Deck, 1912.