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… 6/377/61 Image William Hogarth, ‘A Rake’s Progress’. Plate 6: ‘Scene in a Gaming house’, Wikimedia Commons, 1735. Image James Gillray, ‘The Loss of the Faro Bank; or—the Rook's Pigeon'd’, 1797, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D12595 … 2 . 12 Geo IIc28 et 18 Geo IIc34. Gambling and the Social worlds of Eighteenth-Century Britain In his Early History of Charles James Fox , the historian George Trevelyan explained: 'Society was a vast casino. On whatever pretext and under whatever …
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