Buy this book on-line Cotton, Charles : The Compleat Gamester or Instructions on How to Play at All Manner of Usual and Most Genteel Games.With an Introduction By Thomas E. Marston and Illustrations By Joseph LowImprint Society, Barre, Massachusetts, 1970
Number 1428 of 1950 copies printed at The Press of A. Colish and signed by the illustrator. Full leather binding with publisher's slip case, which has slight wear at the opening. In his interesting introduction, Marston relates biographical information about Cotton and the history and a bibliography of the book, first published in 1674. The text includes rules for: Billiards, Trucks, Bowling, Chess, Picket, Gleek, L'Ombre, Cribbidge (or Cribbage, in modern spelling), All-Fours, Russ and Honours and Whist, French Ruff, Five Cards, Costly-Colours, Bone-Ace, Putt and the High Game, Wit and Reason, The Art of Memory, Plain-Dealing, Queen Nazareen, Lanterloo, Penneech, Post and Pair, Beast, Irish, Back-Gammon, Tick-Tack, Doublets, Sice-Ace, Ketch-Dolt, Inn and Inn, Passage, Hazzard, Riding, Racing, Archery, Cock-Fighting, Basset. 176 pages, plus colophon.. Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Fine. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Cotton, Charles : The Compleat Gamester or Instructions on How to Play at All Manner of Usual and Most Genteel Games.With an Introduction By Thomas E. Marston and Illustrations By Joseph Low. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including incunabula, livres anciens, fine bindings, collectables and first editions. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |