The Impenetrable Secret: a game

A set of cards with moral maxims printed on fronts and backs in black and red ink: e.g., “Poverty is the fruit of idleness, Small griefs are loud, great ones still …”

  • Title:[The Impenetrable Secret: a game, played with ten cards, each bearing a series of proverbs printed on both sides: invented by Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford.].
  • Published/Created:[Strawberry Hill], [1780?]

Catalog Record

496 2401

Acquired April 2019

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