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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, 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

Main Work:

Hoyle's games improved: being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist, quadrille, Hiquet, Chess, Back-gammon, Billiards ... [by Hoyle, E.]

Subjects:

Card games

Playing cards

General 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.
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
English Short Title Catalog, T63337.
Reproduction of original from British Library.

Physical Description:

xii,216 pages ; 12⁰.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

OCLC Numbers:

745044674

Other Control Numbers:

006334515 (source: Uk-ES)