Of by 177J Reclassed 11-16-29E. PREFACE I HAVE Compiled this bibliography in the hope that it may be of some use to those who, like myself, take an interest in books on gaming. I have described the title of every work, however slight, on cards or gaming that I have been able to discover, and have also included all books which contain allusions, of sufficient importance to be recorded, to those subjects. Among books on Conjuring, I have of course included all books on Tricks with Cards; in addition to these however, the many hundreds of works on Conjuring and Recreations in general all make more or less mention of card tricks. Of these I have described only those which are interesting on account of their antiquity or importance. Those readers who desire fuller details in this branch of literature will find them in the Bibliography of Conjuring by Mr. E. Stanyon. I have included a few plays and works of fiction which depend on gaming for their plots, or which contain scenes which illustrate the mode of playing some particular game. I have examined personally nearly all the books list, but of some I have only been able to record the titles which I have found in the bibliographical in my vi works of Watt, Lowndes, Allibone and Hazlitt, and the English and American Catalogues of Books. For a few titles, mostly American, I am indebted to the works on Card Games of Messrs. Rheinhardt, Horr and Butler, and to the columns of Whist. In periodical literature, I have endeavoured to discriminate between the two classes of publications which we usually speak of as magazines and as newspapers. It is obviously impracticable to treat of the latter; of the former class I have not found many articles on gaming, etc., recorded in the various indexes to periodical literature and I have had to rely almost enti I hope th inquirer on the branch of gami Any correct improvement o as also any su compilation of: on Gaming whi LONDON: May, 1905. FREDERIC JESSEL. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PLAYING CARDS AND GAMING (Notes and interpolations of the Compiler are inserted in parentheses.) A., MAJOR.-See Coles, Charles Barham. 1. ABBOTT, JACK.-Treatise on Jack Pot Poker, with the Game of Sancho Pedro when played for Stakes. 24mo. J. E. Eyrich, New Orleans, 1881. (Am. Cat.) 2. ABBOTT, JACK.-Do. 63 pp. 16mo. George Muller and Co., New Orleans, 1902. 3. ACE OF SPADES.-The Theory and Practice of Bridge. By 'Ace of Spades.' 75 pp. I 2mo. The Times of India Press, Bombay, 1903. 4. ACKERMANN'S PICTORIAL PLAYING CARDS.-Thirteen coloured plates and 21 pp. of introduction, illustrative of the accompanying tale of 'Beatrice; or, The Fracas.' 15 pp. 4to. Rudolf Ackermann, London, 1819. (Reprinted from Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 1818-1819.) B ADEPT, AN.-See No. 221. ADEPT, AN.-See No. 587. ADEPT, NO.-See No. 1403. 5. ADVENTURER, THE. (P.)1 No. 29. The Character of a Gamester Defended (by John Hawkesworth). Feb. 12, 1753. No. 35. Plan of a New Paper called the Beau-Monde (by Richard Bathurst). March 3, 1753. 6. AIKEN, WILLIAM BUCKINGHAM.—An Outline of the Principles and Leads of American Whist. (A card.) 4 pp. 16mo. Noyes and Davies, Norwich, U. S. A., 1893. 7. ALBANY LAW JOURNAL, THE. (P.) The Baccarat Prosecutions, by Albany, 1899. -Vol. 44, p. 5. Sir E. Clarke. ALDENHAM, LORD. See Gibbs, Henry Hucks. 8. ALEXANDER, W. A.-Card Playing. 29 pp. 16mo. Richmond, Va., 1892. 9. ALL THE YEAR ROUND. (P.)-8vo. London. Whistology. Vol. 2, p. 480. March 17, 1860. Vol. 2, p. 517. Cheating at Cards. Vol. 5, p. 331. June 29, 1 Periodical publication. ALL THE YEAR ROUND-continued. A Gambler's Life in the Last Century. Vol. The Dying Tiger. Vol. 9, N. S., p. 36. Diamond Cut Diamond. Vol. 9, N. S., p. Spielbad Super Mare. Vol. 16, p. 319. June Strange Hands at Cards. Vol. 17, p. 77. A Run with many Packs. Vol. 17, p. 303. Packs of Cards, Old and New. Vol. 21, An Escroquerie.' Vol. 22, p. 179 February 8, 1879. Card Games. Vol. 40, p. 65. Feb. 5, 1887. Monte Carlo Sketches. Vol. 43, p. 276. Gambling and Burglary. Vol. 43, p. 546. 10. ALLEN, BESSIE E.-Whist Quiz Cards. (Fifty cards of questions on Whist and two of directions for play.) 32mo. Milwaukee, 1897. 11. ALLEN, GEORGE W.-Poker Rules in Rhyme. 72 pp. 24mo. New York, 1895. (Beautifully illustrated and printed.) |