Hoyle's games improved. Being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, back-gammon, draughts, cricket, Tennis, Quinze, Hazard, Lansquenet, and Billiards. 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, the Star and Garter, &c. Revised and corrected by Charles Jones Esq.

People / Organizations

• Edmond Hoyle (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for J. F. and C. Rivingto T. Payne and Son, S. Crowder, R. Baldwin, B. Law, W. and C. Domville, W. Lowndes, E. Newbery, S. Bladon, and G. and T. Wilkie, [1786]

Publication year

1786-1786

ESTC No.

T87525

Grub Street ID

307569

Description

vi,306p.,plate ; 18⁰

Note

Price from imprint: price Three Shillings [and 5 others in London].