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Hoyle, Edmond [Author]

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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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: 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
  • Other titles: Short treatise on the game of whist
  • Contributor: Hoyle, Edmond [Author];
  • 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]
    Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Extent: Online-Ressource ([4],84,24,121-224,[12]p); 12°
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Backgammon Early works to 1800 ; Games Early works to 1800
  • Reproduction series: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: 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