The court-gamester; or, Full and easy instructions for playing the games now in vogue ... viz. ombre, picquet and the royal game of chess ..
A 1722 London card-and-chess manual by Richard Seymour, printed by Edmund Curll for fashionable players of ombre, piquet and chess. The pictures are letterpress ornaments: woodcut headpieces and tailpieces with acanthus scrollwork, beaded borders, a medallion portrait head, and baskets of fruit and flowers tied with ribbons, usable as rules, dividers and small typographic spot ornaments.
