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.

People / Organizations

• T. Wood ("printed for")
• Edmond Hoyle (Author)

Imprint

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

Publication year

1779-1779

ESTC No.

N7224

Grub Street ID

52044

Description

xi,[1],216p. ; 12⁰

Note

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'.