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  The most noble, auncient, and learned playe, called the Phiosophers [sic] game inuented for the honest rereation [sic] of students, and other sober persons, in passing the tediousnes of tyme, to the release of their labours, and the exercise of their wittes. Set forth with such playne precepts, rules and tables, that all men with ease may vnderstand it, and most men with pleasure practise it. by Rafe Leuer and augmented by W.F.
  Date of publication:
  1563
  

  Author(s):

  Lever, Ralph, d. 1584. and Fulwood, William.
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  Publication date suggested by STC; actual printer's name from colophon. W.F. = William Fulwood. Signatures: a A-E. Another issue, with cancel title page, of STC 15542. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  The compleat gamester, or, Instructions how to play at billiards, trucks, bowls, and chess together with all manner of usual and most gentile games either on cards or dice : to which is added the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, and cock-fighting.
  Date of publication:
  1674
  

  Author(s):

  Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.
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  Attributed to C. Cotton. Cf. BM. Reproduction of original in Harvard University Libraries.
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  Funebria floræ the downfall of May-games: wherein is set forth the rudeness, prophaneness, stealing, drinking, fighting, dancing, whoring, mis-rule, mis-spence of precious time, contempt of God, and godly magistrates, ministers and people, which oppose the rascality and rout, in this their open prophanenesse, and heathenish customs. Occasioned by the generall complaint of the rudenesse of people in this kind, in this interval of settlement. Here you have twenty arguments against these prophane sports, and all the cavills made by the belialists for the time refelled and answered. Together with an addition of some verses in the cloze, for the delight of the ingenious reader. By Tho. Hall, B.D. and pastor of Kings-norton.
  Date of publication:
  1661
  

  Author(s):

  Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665.
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  Wits laberynth, or The exercise of idlenesse Containing an artificiall texture of two thousand two hundred and sixtie figures, so placed and disposed, as by the helpe of a briefe direction for that purpose, you may tell which of them any man thinketh. As also by the same obseruation, to discouer any name, or number, that shall bee imagined. Besides an ample and large subiect for those that affect such ingenious recreations, by the sharpnesse of their owne conceits, to drawe out many other delightfull varieties. First composed in Italian by Andrea Ghisi, and now Englished and augmented.
  Date of publication:
  1610
  

  Author(s):

  Ghisi, Andrea.
  Description:
  Actually contains one thousand two hundred and sixty figures--STC. Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.
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