The polite gamester [electronic resource] : Containing, short treatises on the games of whist, quadrille, back-gammon, piquet and chess. Together with an artificial memory, or, An easy method of assisting the memory of those that play at the game of whist. By Edmund Hoyle, gent. a new addition, with great additions to the game whist; among which are, a dictionary of whist, which resolves almost all the critical case that may happen at the game. Also a whole chapter of thirteen new cases, never before published.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.

Standardized Title:

Short treatise on the game of whist

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whist--Early works to 1800.

Whist.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([6],561223,[1]47,[1]43,[1]p. )

Other Title:

Polite gamester

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Printed for G. and A. Ewing, at the Angle and Bible in Dame-Street, M,DCC,LII. [1752]

Notes:

With separate titlepage, pagination and register to each part.

Contains: 'A short treatise on the game of whist', thirteenth edition, 1752; 'An artificial memory', 1751; 'A short treatise on the game of quadrille', 1754; 'A short treatise on the game of back-gammon', "printed for George and Alexander Ewing", 1753; 'A short treatise on th game of piquet', fourth edition, 1752, all published by G. and A. Ewing in Dublin.

Brace(s) in title or imprint.

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T218262.

OCLC:

510602937