• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Mr. Hoyle's treatises of whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, and back-gammon
  • Other titles: Short treatise on the game of whist
  • Contributor: Hoyle, Edmond [Author];
  • Published: [London]: printed for T. Osborne, [1748]
    Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Extent: Online-Ressource ([4],84,[3],100-224,[16]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: Each treatise has a separate titlepage: 'A short treatise on the game of whist .. The eighth edition', 'A short treatise on the game of quadrille .. The second edition', 'A short treatise on the game of piquet .. To which are added, some rules and observations for .. chess. The third edition' and 'A short treatise on the game of back-gammon. The third edition'. All are dated 1748
    English Short Title Catalog, T79890
    Jessel. F. A bibliography of works in English on playing cards and gaming, 800
    Reproduction of original from British Library
    Text continuous despite pagination
    The collective titlepage has no imprint: imprint taken from the individual titlepages
    With an index