Perseus Charles (1 results)
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Published by Lawler and Quick, London 1823
- Hardcover
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. An attack on the gaming clubs of London, controversial when it was published. As in most copies, pages 311-428 were redacted, containing the chapter naming "Evil-disposed persons". Hand coloured frontispiece "La Roulette" depicts fashionable gamblers. Touches on law, mathematics, and morality. Je…ssel 459. Contemporary linen-backed boards, considerably worn. [4], [i]- viii,9-310,439-456 pp.
