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Poets and dramatists: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

Charles Cotton's fishing house on the Dove River, Beresford Dale, Derbyshire: two men fishing from the banks of the river. Engraving after Wilson.

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.

Erōtopolis, the present state of Betty-land.

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.

Erōtopolis, the present state of Betty-land.

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.