Hoyle's games improved : being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist, quadrille, piquet, Chess, Back-Cammon, Billiards, Cricket, Tennis, Duinze, Hazard, and Lansquenet. In Which Are Also Contained The Method of Betting at those Games upon equal or advantageous Terms. Including The Laws of the several Games, as settled and agreed to at Whites and Stapleton's Chocolate Houses. Revised and corrected by Thomas Jones, Esq.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Games.

Genre:

Games.

Physical Description:

xi pages, 1 unnumbered page,216 pages ; 18⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for W. Wood, in Fleet-Street; and sold by all booksellers, M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

'A short treatise on the game of whist', 'A short treatise on the game of quadrille; .. The eighth edition', 'A short treatise on the game of piquet; .. The eighth edition' and 'A short treatise on the game of back-gammon. .. The ninth edition' have separate divisional titlepages; text and register are continuous.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T128016.

Access Restriction:

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