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Hoyle's improved edition of the rules for playing fashionable games: : containing copious directions for whist, quadrille, piquet, quinze, vingt-un, lansquenet, pharo, rouge et noir, cribbage, matrimony, cassino, reversis, put, connexions, all fours, speculation, lottery, Pope Joan, commerce, pam-loo, brag, domino, back-gammon, draughts, hazard, chess, goff, or golf, cricket, billiards. Tennis, horse-racing, and cocking : together with an analysis of the game of chess, and an engraved plate for the instruction of beginners / carefully revised from the last London edition with several additions.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection GV1243 .H87 1838
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Games.
- Board games.
- Card games.
- Chess.
- Cricket.
- Tennis.
- Golf.
- Horse racing.
- Cockfighting.
- Penn Provenance:
- Leisenring, Julia B. (donor) (RBC copy)
- Bernard Conwell Carlitz, Old & Rare Books (label) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- 288 p. ; 14 cm.
- Other Title:
- Hoyle's games
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. 253 Market Street, 1838.
- Notes:
- Copyright June 2, 1830 by William C. Borradaile in the Southern District of New York. Cf. t.p. verso.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Julia B. Leisenring.
- RBC copy has bookseller's label ("CARLITZ BOOKS - PRINTS CUSTOM FRAMING Philadelphia") on front pastedown.
- Cited in:
- Checklist Amer. imprints 50903
- OCLC:
- 191243583
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