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… the aristocracy and the middle classes in the long eighteenth century as we can see from the numerous treatises and publications on the subject such as Edmund Hoyle’s The Polite Gamester (1745) or Games improved (1755) in which card … Reith, Gerda, The Age of Chance: Gambling in Western Culture (London: Routledge, 1999). In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology Public Advertiser (1781) The Young Lady's Pocket Library (1793) … Although game scene paintings from the sixteenth …
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