(Unethical Gambling Practices) | An exposé on dodges with dice and cheats with cards
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October 28, 08:54 PM GMT
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(Unethical Gambling Practices)
The Whole Art and Mystery of Modern Gaming fully Expos'd and Detected; Containing an Historical Account of all the Secret Abuses Practis'd in the Games of Chance. London: Printed and Sold by J. Roberts, and T. Cox, 1726
4to (245 x 191 mm). Numerous tables, one diagram, woodcut factototum, head- and tailpieces. A fine, bright copy. Later burnt orange boards, maroon cloth spine lettered gilt.
An eighteenth-century exposé of crooked gambling that gives detailed information about dodges with dice and cards, including a lengthy chapter on Faro. According to Jessel, the text of this book was "freely borrowed from by other writers, including Richard Seymour," whose Compleat Gamester was a classic text of the era which ran into some dozen editions or more.
REFERENCE:
ESTC 80699; Jessel 615; Toole Stott 703
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