A dissertation on the pernicious effects of gaming : Published, by appointment, as having gained a prize (June 1783) in the University of Cambridge

Richard Hey

Published by Cambridge : Printed by J. Archdeacon Printer to the University ; For J. & J. Merrill, in Cambridge ; T. Cadell, in the Strand, B. White, in Fleetstreet, and G. Wilkie, in St. Paul's Churchyard, London,, 1784

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2nd ed. Bound in fine modern cloth. Marbled end pages. [4], 100 pages. An early treatise on gambling. Hey's description of the pernicious effects of gambling ends with a description of suicide of the failed gambler. "Strenua nos exercet Inertia" - Horace.

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A dissertation on the pernicious effects of gaming : Published, by appointment, as having gained a prize (June 1783) in the University of Cambridge
Author
Richard Hey
Publisher
Cambridge : Printed by J. Archdeacon Printer to the University ; For J. & J. Merrill, in Cambridge ; T. Cadell, in the Strand, B. White, in Fleetstreet, and G. Wilkie, in St. Paul's Churchyard, London,
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1784
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2nd.
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