Captain Crawley — The Card Player&Apos;S Manual

London, Ward, Lock and Tyler, [1876]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce handbook for playing cards written by Captain Crawley, in the original decorative cloth. The first edition. In the publisher's original decorative cloth. This work was written by George Fredrick Pardon under the pseudonym 'Captain Crawley&apos. Pardon was a English journalist and writer on topics such as sports and games. This work provides a guide for card player's with descriptions of games such as 'Whist', 'Loo', 'Cribbage' and all round games. Publisher's advertisements to the rear.Undated. Dated by the preface and copies found at the British Library. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally very smart with marks to the boards, fading to the spine, light rubbing to the joints, bumping to the extremities and very small closed tears to the head and tail of the spine. A past owner's signature to the front and rear pastedowns with offsetting from the signature to the rear free endpaper, light spotting and front and rear hinge tender. Lacking front free endpaper. Internally binding starting in places with cords showing with lightly age toned pages and occasional scattered spotting. Very Good . Ill.: None stated. Very Good .