A Dissertation on the Pernicious Effects of Gaming: Published, by Appointment, as Having Gained a Prize (June 1783) in the University of Cambridge

Richard Hey

Cambridge : Printed by J. Archdeacon Printer to the University ; For J. & J. Merrill, in Cambridge ; T. Cadell, in the Strand, B. White, in Fleetstreet, and G. Wilkie, in St. Paul's Churchyard, London, 1784

2nd ed. Bound in fine modern cloth.  Marbled end pages.  [4], 100 pages.  An early treatise on gambling.  Hey's description of the pernicious effects of gambling ends with a description of suicide of the failed gambler. "Strenua nos exercet Inertia" - Horace.