Book, written in
1674 by
Charles Cotton, describing games and how to play them. The full title is: "The Compleat Gamester: or Instructions - How to play at Billiards, Trucks, Bowls and Chess - together with all manner of usual and most
Gentile Games either on
Cards or Dice - to which is added the Arts and Mysteries of Riding, Racing,
Archery and
Cock-Fighting"
Modeled after Izaak Walton's book, The Compleat Angler, a treatise on fishing, it is the definitive reference for how games were played in Restoration England.