Sports & Games.- [Cotton (Charles)] The Compleat Gamester: or, Instructions How to play Billiards, Trucks, Bowls, and Chess...Cards, or Dice...Mysteries of Riding, Racing, Archery, and Cock-Fighting, second [third] edition, engraved frontispiece with letterpress explanatory leaf laid down on verso (soiled), lightly browned, cropped shaving one or two head-lines, later gilt-stamped oval book-label of John Delaware Lewis and another ink signature to front pastedown, later half red roan, rubbed, upper cover detached, [Wing C6384; cf.Heltzel 407, first edition], 8vo, for Henry Brome, 1680.

⁂ One of the earliest works in English to describe the game of billiards. First published in 1674, and again in 1676, this is in fact the third edition. Although popular in its time all editions are scarce.