Patience (Solitaire) & Small-Format Packs

Patience refers to single-player card games and the small packs made for them. Publishers issued miniature and medium sizes, often as double sets with rule booklets, gilt edges or cambric finishes in hinged, sliding-lid or travel cases. Themes include Goodall, De La Rue, Piatnik and Dondorf issues, teaching editions and later reprints, plus accessories such as Mary Whitmore Jones’s Chastleton board. See also: Miniature and Solitaire.