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.

People / Organizations

• Edmond Hoyle (Author)
• Christopher Etherington ("printed for")

Imprint

London: printed for C. Etherington, at the Circulating Library, No. 137, Fleet-Street, [1783?]

Publication year

1783-1783

ESTC No.

T224606

Grub Street ID

246771

Description

[4],iii,[1],87,[1]p. : ill. ; 12⁰

Note

"Member of the Jockey Club" is the editor.

With a half-title.

Uncontrolled note

Christopher Etherington at 137 Fleet Street in 1783