Hoyle's games improved : being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist, quadrille, Hiquet, Chess, Back-gammon, Billiards, Cricket, Tennis, Quince, 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 (xii,216p. )

Other Title:

Hoyle's games improved

Place of Publication:

London : printed for W. Wood, in Fleet-Street; and sold by all booksellers, M,DCC,LXXXII. [1782]

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

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T63337.

OCLC:

642650672