Quarto. viii, 120pp. With a half-title and a frontispiece. Uncut in original publisher's brown cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inked inscription to verso of front blank fly-leaf: 'Thomas Gaisford / from ' Henry H. Gibbs / 1879'

A choice, presentation copy, of merchant Henry Huck Gibbs, first Baron Aldenham's (1819-1907) study of the seventeenth-century Spanish trick-taking card game of ombre, first printed in 1874.