Hoyle's games improved : being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, back-gammon, billiards, cricket, tennis, quinze, 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 White's and Stapleton's Chocolate Houses. Revised and corrected by Thomas Jones, Esq.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Card games.

Playing cards.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi,[1],216p. )

Other Title:

Hoyle's games improved

Place of Publication:

London : printed for T. Wood , in Fleet-Street ; and sold by all booksellers, M,DCC,LXXIX. [1779]

Notes:

Divisional titlepages for 'A short treatise on the game of quadrille', 'A short treatise on the game of piquet', and 'A short treatise on the game of back-gammon' all bear the edition statement: 'The ninth edition'.

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N7224.

OCLC:

642224853