Author: COTTON, CHARLES (AUTHOR); LOW, JOSEPH (ILLUSTRATIONS)
Title: The Compleat Gamester; or, Instructions How to Play at All Manner of Usual and Most Genteel Games
Description: Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society, 1970. Leather. ISBN: 0876360088. A contemporary reprint edition of author's landmark compendium of all manner of games, first published in 1674, in slipcase. Number 1880 of a limited edition of 1950 copies. Signed by illustrator David Low on limitation page (illustrations throughout). Includes an introduction by Thomas E. Marston. --- In full tan leather-covered boards with gilt-stamped titling on spine. With bird illustration in gilt on cover. Publisher's tan topstain. Slipcase covered in brown marbled papers. --- A firm, bright, unmarked copy, but with shallow creases on a few interior leaves and just a whiff of chafing to spine ends. Slipcase with light chafinging & small tears at extremities, is otherwise nice. (Any reference to dust jacket is meant to describe the slipcase.) ; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xviii, 176 pages; Signed by Illustrator. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

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