The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, in all TImes and Countries, especially in England and in France, in Two Volumes
Author:
STEINMETZ, ANDREW
Title:
The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, in all TImes and Countries, especially in England and in France, in Two Volumes
Publisher:
Tinsely Brother 1870
Description:
Two-volume set, scarce, imperial octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spines & blind-stamped decorative rule to boards, coated eps, xi + 436pp (vol.1), 444pp (vol.2), VG- (6cm portion of vol 2 lower spine missing, rear board vol.1 detached, heavy bruising & fraying to spine extrems & boards corners, browning to spines, staining to boards, bookseller's labels to front pastedowns, owner's ex libris labels to frotn pastedowns, heavy browning to page edges, hinges cracked, pencil drawing to last page vol.1, sporadic light foxing, slight damage to v. occasional page edges)
Keywords:
Andrew Steinmetz gambling history gaming tables history ancient Rome Egypt Europe lotteries entertainment