The compleat gamester: or, Instructions how to play at billiards, trucks, bowls, and chess : Together with all manner of usual and most gentile games either on cards or dice. To which is added, the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, and cock-fighting.

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The compleat gamester: or, Instructions how to play at billiards, trucks, bowls, and chess : Together with all manner of usual and most gentile games either on cards or dice. To which is added, the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, and cock-fighting.