The compleat gamester: or, Instructions how to play at billiards, trucks, bowls, and chess : together with all manner of usual and most gentile games either on cards, or dice : to which is added, the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, and cock-fighting.
Edition:
The second edition.
Published / Created:
London : Printed for Henry Brome at the Gun at the West-end of St. Pauls, 1680.
Physical Description:
[16], 175, [1] p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and ManuscriptsGV1201 .C68 1680Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN NLp50 674cc: Frontispiece supplied and repaired.Anonymous. By Charles Cotton. Cf. Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.).Signatures: A-M⁸.Leaf A1r blank. Leaf A1v bears "The explanation of the frontispiece". Engraved frontispiece on leaf A2v. T.p. is leaf A3.Woodcut initials.Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed. 1994), C6384English short title catalogue, R2573BAC: Copy bound in gilt tooled red morocco; text block edges gilded. Gilt tooled red leather bookplate of Alfred Barmore Maclay on inside of upper board.
Subject Terms:
Games -- Early works to 1800. | Gambling -- Early works to 1800. | Sports -- Early works to 1800. | Billiards -- Early works to 1800. | Cockfighting -- Early works to 1800. | Chess -- Early works to 1800. | Card games -- Early works to 1800. | Horse racing -- Early works to 1800. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. | Brome, Henry -- Publisher. | Maclay, Alfred Barmore -- Bookplate.