This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/30/2021
Cotton, Charles. The Compleat Gamester; or Instructions How to Play at all manner of usual, and most Gentile Games. London: Charles Brome, 1709. Modern chocolate calf, triple fillet gilt border with floral cornerpieces, backstrip with five raised bands and floral tooling, title compartment. With the preliminary explanation leaf, and engraved frontispiece depicting billiards, backgammon, cockfighting, and card playing. Small 8vo. [12], 184pp. Short mended tear to terminal leaf, not affecting type; title and first few leaves slightly soiled; explanatory leaf trimmed for binding, the last line of type cut away. Ex-libris Burton S. Sperber, in his custom cloth clamshell lined with satin. Jessel 310.