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A Late 19th Century Mary Whitmore Jones Cloth Games of Patience - A late 19th-century cloth-bound book titled Games of Patience by Mary Whitmore Jones. The volume is a hardcover first series edition bound in green publisher's cloth featuring Art Nouveau foliate and floral motifs stamped in gilt and colors. The interior pages are illustrated throughout with card layout diagrams. The title page identifies the publisher as L. Upcott Gill of London. A frontispiece portrait of the author includes a printed facsimile signature, and the half-title page bears a handwritten pencil signature reading J Evans.