COTTON, Charles -The Compleat Gamester - Cards - Billiards - Chess - London 1709
CGS0213  Click image to enlarge .jpeg) .jpeg) .jpeg) .jpeg) .jpeg) .jpeg) .jpeg) .jpeg) .jpeg) .jpeg) .jpeg) .jpeg) .jpeg) .jpeg) .jpeg) .jpeg) The Compleat Gamester: or, instructions how to play at all manner of usual and most gentile games, either on cards, dice, billiards, trucks, bowls, chess. Also the arts and misteries of riding, racing, archery, cock-fighting. To which is added, the game of basset, never before Printed in English. All Regulated by the most Experienc'd Masters by Charles Cotton. DESCRIPTION: London 1709, printed for Charles Browne, at the Gun, the West End of St. Paul's-Church, 1709. Small octavo, pagination: [16], 184, with an engraved frontispiece depicting a variety of table and communal games, and with a leaf of poetical explanation bound before it [this slightly trimmed at foot, but legible], bound in contemporary ruled sheep sometime neatly rebacked in calf with red label. SIZE: TBC CONDITION: Lacking one leaf of text [B8], pages 15/16, from Cotton's original 1674 preface quoting an earlier poem on the subject of gaming else complete to all the gaming instructions; £625.00 Have a Question?You need to be Signed In to ask questions. |