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Collation : . 1 f.; Title, 1 f.; Preface and Contents, (H. J.; and J. M.) the series of Compleat Gamesters. their place with his Treatise on Der games were soon included. Hoyle would be interesting. get it from the pen of ther would be more com lish books on games, creation, Annals of important French Jeux (otherwise Universelle des reeable to the offer a sketch ARSHALL. REPLIES:-Quaviver, 390-Notes on "Folk-Etymology," NOTES ON BOOKS:-Long Scott's "Letter Book of Gabriel Rates. COTTON'S AND SEYMOUR'S "GAMESTERS." (Concluded from p. 323.) A book must here be mentioned which Lowndes dates 1690, but of which the only two copies I have yet found are undated; the title is as follows: Games most in Use, in England, France, and Spain, | viz. | Basset, Picquet, Primero, L'Ombre, Chess, Billiards, Grand-Tricktrack, Verquere, &c. Some of which were never before Prin- | ted in any Language. All Regulated by the most Experienc'd | Masters. With a Table to the Whole. London: Printed, and Sold by J. Morphew, near | Stationers-Hall; and by the Booksellers. Price Bound Sheep, 18. 6d. calf 2s. [n. d.] Lowndes may, of course, be right; but there is this reason for doubting, in this case, either his accuracy of the identity of this book with that which he describes, viz., that the "Games most in Use" here noted constitute a volume which is partly, at least, the same, even to the typography, as the Gamester of 1721, to be mentioned presently, notwithstanding that a Gamester had, as we have just seen, appeared in 1709, not differing materially from previous editions, except as to date. It is not, therefore, likely that this book did appear before 1709, was then replaced by a reprint of the 1680 edition, and reappeared in the original type in 1721. After all, perhaps, Lowndes alludes to some other book, though he gives the of extremely Ir a modern ine waterme miles Consort, ociform traight in Brome an The Compleat Gamester: The Fifth 4. Frontispiece, 1 f. (same as in the edito "Hot, piping hot "has now again become ' jut, piping out." |