The court gamester
Subtitle: 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: by Dr. Swift
Publisher: Printed, and sold by J. Wilford ...
Published: 1732
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: lat
Number of pages: 103
Subjects: Games; Early works to 1800; Gambling
Other titles: Knowledge of play.; Journal of a gameing lady of quality.
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.

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