An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling; Designed Especially as a Warning to the Youthful and Inexperienced Against the Evils of that Odious and Destructive Vice.
Boston: Redding & Co, 1845.
Second edition, improved. Engraved pictorial half-title, six wood-engraved plates (2 signed by Tudor Horton), illustrations and tables to text. 324 pp. 8vo. Publisher's embossed purple cloth, spine decorated in gilt, pink endpapers. Chipping to spine ends, some browning to plates, previous owner's name stamped to front free endpaper, but an attractive, bright copy Toole Stott 1064; Jessel 661 (for 4th ed.); not in Howes. Item #315091
Second edition of this popular work on the evils of gambling and the tricks and deceptions used to defraud the unwary, by the riverboat gambler-turned anti-gambling crusader Jonathan Green (1813-1887). With chapters on cheating in poker, faro, and many other games. Green's role as head of the New York Association for the Suppression of Gambling is described in Herbert Asbury's Gangs of New York.
The first edition of 1843 is rare. This edition is notable for its 6 full-page wood engravings showing, among other scenes of vice, fox hunters, card players, a "Louisville Murder" and a New Orleans gambling den. Two of the engravings are signed by Tudor Horton (fl. 1846-1854), who also provided the frontispiece and 8 full-page wood engravings for Green's 1844 confessional, Gambling Unmasked! or the Personal Experience of the Reformed Gambler (cf. Hamilton, Early American Wood Engravers, no. 908).
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