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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Gaming Table, Its Votaries and Victims, in all Times and Countries, especially in England and in France. London, Tinsley Brothers, 1870, 2 volumes, 8vo, pages x,[2],436; [6], 444, bound in contemporary half calf, spines gilt with raised bands and red labels, top edges gilt, marbled sides and endpapers. CONDITION: Spines and a little rubbed with light wear to head of volume one, light occasional foxing of text. A very good presentable set. FURTHER COMMENTS First edition and the first comprehensive history of gambling and a standard work of reference to this day. with the bookplates of the bibliophile Henry Arthur Blyth whose library of fine sporting books was sold at Christies in 1901. SIZE: 224 x 145mm.…