Hoyle's games improved: being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, back-gammon, billiards ...

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

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Author/Creator:: Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769
Languages:: English
Language Notes:: Item content: English
Full Title:: 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
Main Work:: Hoyle's games improved: being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, back-gammon, billiards ... [by Hoyle, E.]
Subjects:: Card games
Playing cards
General 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'.
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
English Short Title Catalog, N7224.
Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
Physical Description:: xi, 1 unnumbered page, 216 pages ; 12⁰.
Digital Characteristics:: text file
OCLC Numbers:: 642224853
Other Control Numbers:: 006064623 (source: Uk-ES)