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.

Contributor:

Brookes, R., autographer.

Pechell, Hervey, former owner.

Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Ombre (Game)--Early works to 1800.

Ombre (Game).

Piquet (Game)--Early works to 1800.

Piquet (Game).

Chess--Early works to 1800.

Chess.

Physical Description:

vi pages, 7 unnumbered pages-103 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 4 unnumbered pages, vi, 86 pages ; 17 cm (12mo)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed, and sold by J. Wilford ..., 1732.

Notes:

Preface to the first part signed: R.S.; postscript signed: R. Seymour.

The second part has separate pagination and signatures and special t.p.: The knowledge of play ... Translated from the Latin original of John Rizzetti, with improvements by Richard Seymour, Esq; ...

Signatures: part 1, A-D12 E1-5; part 2, A2 B-H6 I4.

"The journal of a gameing lady of quality, a tale. In a letter to a friend. By Messieurs Swift and Pope": p. [73]-86 at end of second part.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center GV1295.O5 S49 1732 has autograph of R. Brookes dated 1733 and bookplate of Hervey Pechell.

Cited in:

Teerink-Scouten 672

ESTC t116617

Contains:

Rizzetti, Giovanni, -1751. Ludorum scientia. English. 1732.

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Journal of a Dublin lady. 1732.

Knowledge of play.

Journal of a gameing lady of quality.

OCLC:

21937920