The accurate gamester's companion: containing infallible rules for playing the game of whist ... Also the laws of the game, ... The ninth edition improv'd. To which are added, the games of quadrille, piquet, chess and back-gammon, ... Likewise a dictionary for whist, and an artificial memory. The whole founded on the experience of Edmond Hoyle, ...

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• The accurate gamester's companion: containing infallible rules for playing the game of whist ... Also the laws of the game, ... The ninth edition improv'd. To which are added, the games of quadrille, piquet, chess and back-gammon, ... Likewise a dictionary for whist, and an artificial memory. The whole founded on the experience of Edmond Hoyle, ...
• Short treatise on the game of whist

People / Organizations

• Edmond Hoyle (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for Tho. Osborne: and sold by W. Reeve, 1748.

Publication year

1748-1748

ESTC No.

T87516

Grub Street ID

307560

Description

[8],84;24,121-224,[16]p. ; 12⁰

Note

Titlepage in red and black.

Half-title: 'Mr. Hoyle's treatises of whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, and back-gammon.'.

The text is continuous.

Contains: 'A short treatise on the game of whist', eighth edition, London, printed for T. Osborne, 1748; 'A short treatise on the game of quadrille', second edition, London, printed for T. Osborne; J. Hildyard, at York; M. Bryson, at Newcastle; and J. Leake, at Bath, 1748; 'A short treaise on the game of piquet', third edition, London, printed for T. Osborne, 1748; 'A short treatise on the game of back-gammon', third edition, London, printed for T. Osborne, 1748.