Description
Games.- [Cotton (Charles)] The Compleat Gamester: or Instructions how to Play...Cards, Dice, Billiards, Trucks, Bowls, or Chess. also the Arts and Misteries of Riding, Racing, Archery and Cock-fighting..., engraved frontispiece with scenes of billiards, backgammon, dice, cock-fighting and cards, with accompanying letterpress leaf of explanatory verses bound at beginning, browned, contemporary sprinkled sheep, rubbed, rebacked, corners repaired, 8vo, for Charles Brome, 1710.
⁂ ESTC lists 2 copies only (Oxford and Cleveland Public Library).
Lot 40
Games.- [Cotton (Charles)] The Compleat Gamester, engraved frontispiece, 8vo, for Charles Brome, 1710.
Hammer Price: £550
Description
Games.- [Cotton (Charles)] The Compleat Gamester: or Instructions how to Play...Cards, Dice, Billiards, Trucks, Bowls, or Chess. also the Arts and Misteries of Riding, Racing, Archery and Cock-fighting..., engraved frontispiece with scenes of billiards, backgammon, dice, cock-fighting and cards, with accompanying letterpress leaf of explanatory verses bound at beginning, browned, contemporary sprinkled sheep, rubbed, rebacked, corners repaired, 8vo, for Charles Brome, 1710.
⁂ ESTC lists 2 copies only (Oxford and Cleveland Public Library).