Mr. Hoyle's games of whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, and back-gammon, complete, in which are contained, the method of playing and betting at those games, upon equal, or advantageous Terms. Including the laws of the several games.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Games.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii,216p. )

Edition:

The sixteenth edition. To which are added, two new cases at whist; also the new laws of the game at whist, as played at White's and Saunders's Chocolate-Houses.

Other Title:

Mr. Hoyle's games of whist,

Place of Publication:

London : printed by assignment from T. Osborne; for J. Rivington and J. Wilki St. Paul's Church-Yard; S. Crowder and R. Baldwin, Pater-Noster-Row; T. Caslon, and B. Law, Stationers-Court; T. Lowndes, Fleet-Street; F. Newbery, Ludgate-Street; W. Domville, Royal-Exchange; T. Becket, in the Strand; T. Davies, Covent-Garden; W. Davis, Piccadilly; and J. Ridley, St. James's-Street, [1770?]

Notes:

"No copies of this book are genuine, but what are signed as under"; Hoyle's woodcut signature is stamped underneath.

Price from imprint: price Three Shillings, neatly bound [and 5 others in London].

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Roscoe, A243 (2)

English Short Title Catalog, T88029.

OCLC:

642720909