Gaming.- Faro, and Rouge et Noir...To which is prefixed, a History of Cards, first edition, half-title, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece (lightly offset), 3pp. advertisements at end, half-title and title margins with short tear and some very slight fraying, some small marginal water-staining to first few ff., some surface soiling, final few ff. water-stained at inner-edge, uncut in contemporary wrappers, lacking backstrip, some water-staining and fraying to edges, 8vo, for J. Debrett, 1793.
⁂ Rare treatise on two of the most popular gambling games of the period. We can trace only one copy at auction, likely this, in 1993.
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