The compleat gamester or, full and easy instructions for playing at all manner of usual, and most genteel games, after the best method. Viz. I. Ombre, piquet, with a song on the same; lanterloo, whist, and a great variety of other games on the cards. II. The famous game of verquere, tick-tack, Irish, back-gammon. III. Inn and inn, passage, hazard, the royal game at chess, and billiards. To which is added. The gentleman's diversion, in riding, racing, archery, cock-fighting, and bowling. All regulated by the most experienced masters
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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London
printed for J. Wilford, at the Three Flower de Luces in Little Britain
1721, MDCCXXI. [1721]
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Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Item Description: | A reissue of 'Games most in use', [1713], with the following added: an initial leaf, headed on the verso 'The explanation of the frontispiece'; plate; cancel title page; and 'The gentleman's diversion' with separate pagination and register. - Anonymous. By Charles Cotton. - English Short Title Catalog, T64306. - Reproduction of original from Huntington Library |
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Physical Description: | Online-Ressource ([10],104;44p.,plate) 8° |