An epitome of Hoyle, with Beaufort and Jones's Hoyle improved; or, practical treatises on the following games. Hazard, backgammon, tennis, Billiards, Cricket, Chess, Draughts, Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Lansquenet, and Quinze. With an Account of the present fashionable Game called E-O, played at most of the polite Chocolate Houses, never before attempted in Print. Comprising the Laws and Rules of the several Games, as settled at White's, Stapleton's, &c. &c. Also the most advantageous Method of Betting at those Games, and the erroneous Odds introduced in former Productions of a similar kind, rectified. By a member of the Jockey Club.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Games--Early works to 1800.

Games.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([4],iv,87,[1]p. )

Other Title:

Epitome of Hoyle,

Place of Publication:

Dublin : printed by R. M. Butler, Bookseller, No. 31, Grafton-Street, M.DCC.XCI. [1791]

Notes:

Braces in imprint.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T127978.

OCLC:

642354831