[Cotton, Charles] | All manner of usual and most gentile games…

[Cotton, Charles]

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. London: Printed for Henry Brome, 1680

8vo (152 x 89 mm). Lacking engraved frontispiece and explanatory text thereof, also lacking I6–8, K1–6, L5–8, and all of quire M, K7–8 and L1–4 detached. Nineteenth-century calf, smooth spine gilt, brown endpapers, lower hinge cracked.

The second edition, as indicated on the title-page, although Henry Brome also produced an edition in 1676. The first edition appeared in 1674. An imperfect copy.

REFERENCE:

ESTC R2573; Wing C6384