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Author: Claire Cock-Starkey Publisher: ISBN: 9780712357395 Category : Amusements Languages : en Pages : 0
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"The Georgian Art of Gambling" takes the reader on a miscellaneous tour through high and low society to reveal all aspects of gambling in the Georgian era. Descriptions of the most fashionable card and dice games of the day are interspersed with snippets of contemporary anti-gambling pamphlets, descriptions of the most famous (and degenerate) gambling houses, and accounts of the ruination of many high-profile aristocrats. "The Georgian Art of Gambling" covers wagering on sports such as cockfighting, bull baiting, boxing and cricket to the more sedentary pleasures of the card table. Both the civilised (card games portrayed in the novels of Jane Austen) and the debauched (card sharps and loaded dice) are explored, offering the reader a fascinating glimpse into the extent of gambling in Georgian Britain.
Author: Claire Cock-Starkey Publisher: ISBN: 9780712357395 Category : Amusements Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Georgian Art of Gambling" takes the reader on a miscellaneous tour through high and low society to reveal all aspects of gambling in the Georgian era. Descriptions of the most fashionable card and dice games of the day are interspersed with snippets of contemporary anti-gambling pamphlets, descriptions of the most famous (and degenerate) gambling houses, and accounts of the ruination of many high-profile aristocrats. "The Georgian Art of Gambling" covers wagering on sports such as cockfighting, bull baiting, boxing and cricket to the more sedentary pleasures of the card table. Both the civilised (card games portrayed in the novels of Jane Austen) and the debauched (card sharps and loaded dice) are explored, offering the reader a fascinating glimpse into the extent of gambling in Georgian Britain.
Author: Jonathan Harrington Green Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230340050 Category : Languages : en Pages : 88
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ... Deceptions used in the Game of Faro. Deceptions Used In The Game Of Faro. This game has proved to be the most destructive one ever introduced among us, both on account of its being the greatest banking game, and the most exciting and fascinating game known. And I think no one, after becoming somewhat acquainted with the details of this game, will judge of it to be otherwise than I have here represented it to be. Mr. Hoyle, in his Treatise on Games, contemplated in this, as in every other game of his introduction, fair play, and has so laid the game down, and given a scientific exposition of his principles and positions, that persons reading his Treatise would get but a very trifling knowledge of the game as played at present by the gamblers throughout our country. This has been so entirely remodeled and changed, as at present to bear no resemblance to the faro introduced by Mr. Hoyle; and as I have undertaken to expose the deceptions of this game, I hope to be able to complete the task (adhering strictly to the truth) in such a manner as shall convince all of the immense evil of it, and fully expose to all the artifices of those who play it; indeed, a man, it will clearly appear, would act more rationally and correctly to burn his money than to bet it on faro. In both cases he would lose his money, but in the former it would be lost without the sin of gambling being committed, his time wasted, and his reputation injured; all these, and more, he will save by burning his money, in preference to betting it on faro. Mr. Hoyle, I doubt not, little supposed that any one would wish to improve his games, and there is only one Deceptions used in the Game of Faro. class of persons that would wish to do so, and that is the class of professional...
Author: John Eglin Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192888196 Category : Languages : en Pages : 283
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Gambling captures as nothing else the drama of the "long eighteenth century" between the age of religious wars and the age of revolutions. The society that was confronted with games of chance pursued as commercial ventures also came to grips with unprecedented social mobility, floated by new wealth from new sources created fortunes from trade in sugar, cotton, ivory, silk, tea, or enslaved human beings. Likewise, play for money was prominent in the public imagination as money itself, deployed through an ever expanding and ever more sophisticated range of mechanisms, increasingly invaded public awareness, as when prospective spouses in period fiction were rated in terms of annual income as if they were municipal bonds. Similarly, the archetypal figure of the gambler captured the imagination of the public in fiction, media, and politics. At the same time, new interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics - encouraged and bankrolled by those in power - fostered a new and unprecedented appreciation for mathematical probability and its applications, opening the possibility that games of chance might be pursued as a profitable commercial venture. The Gambling Century focuses like no previous work on those who enabled, facilitated, and profited from gambling, as well as on efforts to regulate or outlaw it. Using extensive archival material as well as printed sources, it follows its subjects from the Court to the coffeehouse, to private clubs and "at homes" in townhouses, all of which prefigure that quintessentially modern gambling space, the casino.
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