[Game]. Game of grotesque masquerades. By alphabetical letters. [Address illegible, Chez les Marchands de nouveautés?] Paris. [Circa 1840]. (12.8 x 8.8 x 2.8 cm). Publisher's wood and cardboard box, engraved with the title in a banner, hand-colored, applied to the lid, midnight blue speckled paper edges, enclosing 24 cards cut into three horizontal strips. Grotesque alphabet finely engraved, colored and cut into three unequal parts: the forehead, the nose and the chin attached to a small body. Name of the character engraved in a band at the foot. On each part an initial. To form the original body one must "gather the same three letters. One can multiply these figures up to two thousand different physiognomies." [From the explanation of the new, later Masquerade Game]. Period brush colors, plates applied on strong laid paper. No I or W, as issued. Rare game in its original box. The central parts (nose) of the letters D, E, J, N, P, R, V and Z are missing.