The Poker Manual. A Practical Course of Instruction in the Game… Together with the International Code of Laws.

TEMPLAR,.

Item Number: 69033

London: Frederick Warne , 1895.

Early edition of Templar’s Poker Manual. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout with colorful red and black diagrams, all edges gilt. In very good condition.

In this early 20th-century Poker Manual, the anonymous author "Templar"observes that "the spirit of the game, and of the laws, must be kept in view." Profusely illustrated with displays of poker hands in red and black, this elegant yet practical volume covers etiquette and jackpots, strategies for varying "your play and style," outlines the international codes of the game, and offers a reminder that "bluffing… is the finesse of Poker. It is this element that gives to the game its intense human interest. without it Poker would be mere chance." Powell 447. Holden 112. See Jessel 1576.