276. COFFIN, CHARLES EMMET.-The Gist of Whist. Being a Concise Guide to the Modern Scientific Game. 100 pp. 16mo. J. S. Tait, New York, 1893. 277. COFFIN, CHARLES EMMET.-Do. Fourth edition. Revised. xii+110 pp. 1895. (1894.) 278. COFFIN, CHARLES EMMET.-Do. Seventh edition. Brentano, New York, 1902. 279. COFFIN, CHARLES EMMET.-Multum in Parvo, being the Tables of American Leads and Plays of Second and Third Hand, with Brief Rules and Maxims from The Gist of Whist,' 16mo. J. S. Tait, New York. (1894.) 12 pp. 280. COFFIN, CHARLES EMMET.-Tables of Whist Leads and Conventional Plays, from Gamesters and Gaming. Vol. 10, p. 256. 1823. A Chapter on Gambling. Vol. 94, p. 56. 1851. Gambling in the 18th Century. By A. 1853. 282. COLDRIDGE, WARD, AND HAWKS FORD, CYRIL VYVYAN-The Laws of Gambling, Civil and Criminal. xxiii+387 pp. 8vo. Reeves and Turner, London, 1895. 283. COLES, CHARLES BARHAM.-Short Whist : its Rise, Progress and Laws. Together with Maxims for Beginners, and Observations to make anyone a Whist Player. By Major A. Front. iv+96 pp. 16mo. Longman and Co., London, 1834. - 284. COLES, CHARLES BARHAM. Do. 285. COLES, CHARLES BARHAM. - Do. To which are added Precepts for Tyros, by Mrs. B. (The sixth edition.) 10+95 PP. 16mo. 1839. 286. COLES, CHARLES BARHAM. Seventh edition. 109 pp. 8vo. 1840. Do. 287. COLES, CHARLES BARHAM. Do. Tenth edition. III pp. 8vo. 1849. 288. COLES, CHARLES BARHAM.-Do. The sixteenth edition, newly edited and completely revised, with an Essay on the Theory of the Modern Scientific Game, by Professor P. (i.e. William Pole). The whole specially adapted for the instruction, improvement and encouragement of Players in domestic circles. (Two fronts.) x+147 pp. 8vo. Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1865. (This celebrated treatise, which also contains the laws of écarté, piquet, cassino, cribbage, and backgammon, was published in November 1834. Some copies of the first edition are dated 1835. The frontispiece is unsigned, but of considerable merit, and is attributed to George Cruikshank. I have seen several copies of the second edition (only) with a coloured frontispiece. The dates of the editions not enumerated above are-third, 1836; fourth, 1837; fifth, 1838; eighth, 1843; ninth, 1845; eleventh, 1850; twelfth, 1852; thirteenth, 1855; fourteenth, 1858; fifteenth, 1862; seventeenth and eighteenth, 1865. They are merely reprints of the editions that immediately preceded them.) See also No. 1168. 289. COLLIER, JEREMY.-An Essay upon Gaming, in a dialogue between Callimachus and Dolomedes. 46 pp. 8vo. J. Morphew, London, 1712. (Reprinted by Edmund Goldsmid in Collectanea Adamantaea,' Edinburgh, 1885.) 290. COLLINS, GILBERT L.-Success at Monte Carlo, containing a complete exposition of the 'Collins Theory' (Roulette); also two Systems by Herbert Strangford. With a Chart. Price 61. 6s. The J. L. Morgan Co., Croydon, 1902. 291. COLLINS, W. H.-Arguments against some of the Popular Errors of Whist, with an E analysis of some of the Leading Features of the Game. By W. H. C. 32 pp. 16mo. R. Foster, Whitehaven, 1880. 292. COLMAN, GEORGE.-The Oxonian in Town. A Comedy in Two Acts. 31 PP. 8vo. T. Beckett and R. Baldwin, London, 1770. (The Epilogue is of special interest.) COLONEL, THE.'-See D. E. B. 293. COMBAT WITH THE GIANT, THE. A New Invented and Entertaining Game. Fol. Champante and Whitrow, London, 1790. CONGREVE, WILLIAM.-See No. 1564. 294. CONJUROR'S REPOSITORY, THE; or, The Whole Art and Mystery of Modern Magic displayed by the Following Celebrated Characters, Pinetti, Katterfelto, Barrett, Breslaw, Sibley, Lane, &c. Embellished with an Engraving. 146 pp. I 2mo. T. R. Hughes, London, 1793. (Often reprinted.) 295. 'CONNOISSEUR.'-The Annals of Gaming, or the Fair Player's Sure Guide. Containing original Treatises on the following Games, viz., Whist, Hazard, Tennis, Lansquenet, Piquet, Billiards, Loo, Quadrille, Lottery, Backgammon, All-Fours, Comet or Pope Joan. To which are subjoined all the Operations, Legerdemains, Manoeuvres, Artifices, Tricks, Shuffles, Cuts, Crosses, or any possible indirect Means that can be introduced at these Games. By A Connoisseur. iii +216 pp. 8vo. G. Allen, London, 1775. 296. CONNOISSEUR.'-Do. ii+216 pp. Second edition. I 2mo. W. Lane and others, London, N.D. (Reprinted from the 'Covent 297. CONNOISSEUR, THE. (P.)-By Mr Town,' Critic and Censor-General. 4 vols., folio. London, 1754-1756. (A Periodical written almost entirely by Bonnell Thornton and George Colman, containing many references to Card-playing, Whist, &c.) 298. CONSTANT, ALPHONSE LOUIS.—Transcendental Magic. Its Doctrine and Ritual. By Eliphas Levi. A complete translation, with a biographical preface, by Arthur Edward Waite. Portrait and Illustrations. xxiv+406 pp. 8vo. George Redway, London, 1896. 299. CONSTANT, ALPHONSE LOUIS.-The Magic Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum interpreted by the Tarot Trumps. Translated from the MSS. of Eliphaz Levi and edited by W. Wynn Westcott, M.B., with 8 plates. x+108 pp. 8vo. George Redway, London, 1896. (P.) 300. CONTEMPORARY REVIEW, THE. 8vo. London, |