| Title | Wits Interpreter: The English Parnassus Or, a sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing |
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| Author | John Cragge |
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| Publisher | N. Brook and Obadiah Blagrave |
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| Type | Book / Booklet |
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| Year Published | 1671 |
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| Collection | Levy Collection |
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| Game Names (keywords) | ombre, piquet, gleek, cribbage, chess |
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| Edition | 3 |
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| ISBN | |
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| Relevant page numbers or number of pages on games | 353-387 |
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| Relevance | All on games history or historical games |
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| As Jessel notes, the third edition (the first published after the Restoration) is the earliest book containing a treatise on card games. It treats ombre, piquet, gleek, cribbage, and chess.
For the attribution to Cragge, see Joshua McEvilla, “John Cragge’s The Wits Interpreter” The Library 18:3 (2017) 337-344. |