Games and Gamesters of the Restoration

Games and Gamesters of the Restoration (1930) reprints two vastly different books The Compleat Gamester (1674) and Lives of the Gamesters (1714) that together give a comprehensive and representative view of gamesters and gambling in the latter half of the seventeenth century - a time that saw an explosion in such pursuits following the end of Cromwell's rule.

Charles Cotton and Theophilus Lucas

1. Introduction 2. The Compleat Gamester 3. Lives of the Gamesters