[Cotton, Charles] | Gambling, games, and sports

[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). Lacks explanation leaf, engraved frontispiece, and quire M, light dampstaining in quire L, L7 shaved at fore-edge. Nineteenth-century green cloth, spine lettered gilt; front free endpaper detached, lower free endpaper gone.

The second [third] edition.

REFERENCE:

ESTC R2573; Wing C6384