The accurate gamester's companion: containing infallible rules for playing the game of whist To Perfection In all its Branches. Treated in an easy Manner, and illustrated with Variety of Cases. Also the laws of the game, Calculations relative to it, &c. The ninth edition improv'd. To which are added, the games of quadrille, piquet, chess and back-gammon, fully explain'd. Likewise a dictionary for whist, and an artificial memory. The whole founded on the experience of Edmond Hoyle, Gent:
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Main Author: Hoyle, Edmond 1672-1769 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London printed for Tho. Osborne: and sold by W. Reeve, at Shakespear's-Head, near Serjeant's-Inn-Gate, in Fleet-Street [1748] [1750]
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Item Description:English Short Title Catalog, N22957
Price from imprint: price Three Shilling
Reproduction of original from William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (UCLA)
Titlepage in red and black
With initial and final advertisement leaves
With separate titlepages to each treatise: 'A short treatise on the game of whist. .. The tenth edition', printed for T. Osborne, 1750; 'A short treatise on the game of quadrille. .. The second edition', printed for T. Osborne; J. Hildyard, at York; M. Bryson at Newcastle; an J. Leake, at Bath, 1748; 'A short treatise on the game of piquet' and 'A short treatise on the game of back-gammon', both of the third edition, printed for T. Osborne in 1748
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