Excerpt from A History of English Lotteries: Now for the First Time Written

I have tried, as far as in my power lay, to make this book one which will be, I hope, not agreeable and interesting to the general reader, but one which, I also hope, will find its place in very many libraries, as a book of reference, and' an authority on the subject on which I have written.

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