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.

Title

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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Subject terms

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 9, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• The Explanation of the Frontispiece.
• title page
• The Epistle to the Reader.
• The Contents.
• Of Gaming in General, or an Ordinary described.
  • The Character of a Gamester.
• part
  • CHAP. I.
    • Orders to be observed by such who will play at Billiards.
    • conclusion
  • Chap. III.
    • Orders for a Truck-Table.
  • CHAP. IV.
    • The Character of a Bowling-Ally, and Bowling-Green.
  • CHAP. V.
    • rules
• Principal Games on CARDS.
  • CHAP. VI.
  • CHAP. VII.
  • CHAP. VIII.
  • CHAP. IX.
  • CHAP. X.
  • CHAP. XI.
  • CHAP. XII.
  • CHAP. XIII.
  • CHAP. XIV.
  • CHAP. XV.
  • CHAP. XVI.
  • CHAP. XVII.
  • CHAP. XVIII.
  • CHAP. XIX.
  • CHAP. XX.
  • CHAP. XXI.
    • Lanterloo another way plaid.
  • CHAP. XXII.
  • CHAP. XXIII.
  • CHAP. XXIV.
  • CHAP. XXV.
• Games within the Tables.
  • CHAP. XXVI.
  • CHAP. XXVII.
  • CHAP. XXVIII.
  • CHAP. XXIX.
  • CHAP. XXX.
  • CHAP. XXXI.
• Games without the Tables.
  • CHAP. XXXII.
  • CHAP. XXXIII.
  • CHAP. XXX.
  • CHAP. XXXII.
    • Of the Horse of Pleasure.
  • CHAP. XXXVI.
    • rules and instructions
  • CHAP. XXXVII.
  • CHAP. XXXVIII.
    • Of the Choice of the Fighting-Cock.
    • How to breed a Cock of the Game.
    • Of dieting and ordering a Cock for Battel.
    • The right way of Cock-matching.
    • How to prepare Cocks for Fight.
    • How to order Cocks after battel, and how to cure wounds.
    • Cures for some distempers in a Cock, Chick, or Hen o'th' Game.
    • An excellent and elegant Copy of Verses upon two Cock's-fighting, by Dr. R. Wild.