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.

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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.
Author
Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.
Publication
London :: Printed by A.M. for R. Cutler and to be sold by Henry Brome ...,
1674.
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Games -- Early works to 1800.
Gambling -- Early works to 1800.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 17th century.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34637.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.

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