COTTON, Charles (1630-1687)]. The Compleat Gamester: or, Instructions how to play at Billiards, Trucks, Bowls, and Chess. Together with all Manner of ... Cards or Dice. To which is added, the Arts and Mysteries of Riding, Racing, Archery, and Cock-Fighting . London: for Henry Brome, 1676. 8° (156 x 90mm). Engraved frontispiece with accompanying leaf 'The Explanation of the Frontispiece'. (A few very short tears in top margins, mostly expertly repaired, some light washing.) Brown morocco by Riviere, central oval decoration on sides, gilt edges. Provenance : Charles Lilburne (bookplate). Second edition of Cotton's anonymous little work on gaming which was frequently reprinted and augmented -- by the time of the fifth edition in 1734 it comprised another two parts. Apart from the games mentioned in the title there are twenty card games including a type of alcoholic pelmanism and cribbage (invented, according to Aubrey, about thirty years previously by Sir John Suckling), backgammon and tick-tack and other games using or not using a table. The author is, of course, better known for his friendship and collaboration with Izaak Walton, and also for the verses which were valued by Wordsworth, Coleridge and Lamb. Wing C-6383 (5 copies only).
COTTON, Charles (1630-1687)]. The Compleat Gamester: or, Instructions how to play at Billiards, Trucks, Bowls, and Chess. Together with all Manner of ... Cards or Dice. To which is added, the Arts and Mysteries of Riding, Racing, Archery, and Cock-Fighting . London: for Henry Brome, 1676. 8° (156 x 90mm). Engraved frontispiece with accompanying leaf 'The Explanation of the Frontispiece'. (A few very short tears in top margins, mostly expertly repaired, some light washing.) Brown morocco by Riviere, central oval decoration on sides, gilt edges. Provenance : Charles Lilburne (bookplate). Second edition of Cotton's anonymous little work on gaming which was frequently reprinted and augmented -- by the time of the fifth edition in 1734 it comprised another two parts. Apart from the games mentioned in the title there are twenty card games including a type of alcoholic pelmanism and cribbage (invented, according to Aubrey, about thirty years previously by Sir John Suckling), backgammon and tick-tack and other games using or not using a table. The author is, of course, better known for his friendship and collaboration with Izaak Walton, and also for the verses which were valued by Wordsworth, Coleridge and Lamb. Wing C-6383 (5 copies only).
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