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.
Buy Games and Gamesters of the Restoration: The Compleat Gamester, by Charles Cotton, 1674; and, Lives of the Gamesters, by Theophilus Lucas, 1714. With an introduction by Cyril Hughes Hartmann by Charles Cotton from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, BooksDirect.