"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.

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...