Cigarette Cards and How to Collect Them

Contents include: Introduction – The beginnings of the cards – Trade cards – Types of card – Production and distribution – The subject matter of the cards – Imperial and foreign issues – Rare cards and curiosities -Making a collection – Storage and classification – The cigarette card trade – The uses of card collecting – A suggested classification of cigarette cards Originally published in 1937. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. H09