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The Compleat Gamester; Or, Instructions how to Play at Billiards, Trucks, Bowls and Chess ... Cards ... Dice, To which is Added the Arts ... of Riding, Racing, Archery, and Cockfighting [by Charles
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In the mid-17th century, game literature in England took off. Initially these were translations of French books, for example on
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rules for card games were themselves cribbed by the most successful of the seventeenth-century English treatises on games,
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The 1674 edition included instructions on how to play "all manner of usual and most gentile games either on
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Charles Cotton died in 1687, so subsequent editions were edited by other writers.
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Index

Compleat Gamester
compendia
Charles Cotton
Edmond Hoyle

piquet
cards
dice
riding
racing
archery
cock-fighting
Billiards
Bowls
Chess
Picket
Gleek
L'Ombre
Basset
Cribbage
All fours
Ruff and honours
Whist
French Ruff
Costly Colours
Bone ace
Putt
Wit and reason
Queen Nazarene
Lanterloo

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