A short treatise on the game of whist. : Containing the laws of the game: and also some rules, whereby a beginner may, with due attention to them, attain to the playing it well. Calculations for those who will bet the odds on any point of the score of the game then playing and depending. Cases stated, to shew what may be effected by a very good player in critical parts of the game. References to cases, viz. at the end of the rule you are directed how to find them. Calculations, directing with moral certainty, how to play well and hand or game, by shewing the chances of your partner's having 1, 2, or 3 certain cards. With variety of cases added in the appendix. By Edmund Hoyle, gent. The second edition. With great additions to the laws of the game, and an explanation of the calculations which are necessary to be understood by those who would play it well, &c. &c.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Piquet (Game).

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages,10,5*-10*,11-86 pages ; 12⁰

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for F. Cogan at the Middle-Temple-Gate, MDCCXLIII. [1743]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

Signatures: A-H⁶ I² (A5 missigned 'A').

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:

Jessel, F. A bibliography of works in English on playing cards and gaming, 770

English Short Title Catalog, N24768.

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