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PATTERSON SMITH REPRINT SERIES IN CRIMINOLOGY, LAW ENFORCEMENT, AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS
A listing of publications in the SERIES will be found at rear of volume

PUBLICATION NO. 96: PATTERSON SMITH REPRINT SERIES IN CRIMINOLOGY, LAW ENFORCEMENT, AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS
THE GAMING TABLE:
ITS VOTARIES AND VICTIMS,
In all Times and Countries, especially in England
and in France.

BY
ANDREW STEINMETZ, ESQ.,
OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW;
FIRST-CLASS EXTRA CERTIFICATE SCHOOL OF MUSKETRY, HYTHE;
late OFFICER INSTRUCTOR MUSKETRY, THE QUEENS OWN LIGHT INFANTRY MILITIA.
AUTHOR OF `THE HISTORY OF THE JESUITS,' `JAPAN AND HER PEOPLE,'
`THE ROMANCE OF DUELLING,' &c., &c.

The sharp, the blackleg, and the knowing one,
Livery or lace, the self-same circle, run;
The same the passion, end and means the same—
Dick and his Lordship differ but in name.'


IN TWO VOLUMES.—VOL. I.

Montclair, New Jersey

PATTERSON SMITH
1969

Originally published 1870
Reprinted 1969 by
Patterson Smith Publishing Corporation
Montclair, New Jersey



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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 69-16247,