The court gamester : In two parts. Part I. Containing, full and easy instructions for playing the games now in vogue after the best Method; as they are played at Court, and in the Assemblees, viz. Ombre, in all its Branches. Picquet. And, the Royal Game of Chess. Part II. Containing, the knowledge of play, written for Publick Benefit, and the Entertainment of all Fair Players, wherein the Frauds in Play are detected, and the Chances of the Games of Hazard, Pharao, and Basset, are calculated and determined. To which is added, the journal of a gameing lady of quality, a Tale. In a Letter to a Friend. By Dr. Swift.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seymour, Richard, Esq.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Games--Early works to 1800.

Games.

Gambling--Early works to 1800.

Gambling.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (103,[3][4],vi,86p. )

Other Title:

Court gamester.

Place of Publication:

London : printed, and sold by J. Wilford, behind the Chapter-House, near St. Paul's, [1732]

Notes:

The preface signed: R. S., i.e. Richard Seymour.

Part II has a separate register, pagination and titlepage: 'The knowledge of play, .. Translated from the Latin original of John Rizzetti, with improvements by Richard Seymour'.

Braces in imprint.

Price from imprint: price 2 s. 6 d. Bound.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Teerink-Scouten, 672

English Short Title Catalog, T116617.

OCLC:

642298692