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  • Titel: 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
  • Weitere Titel: Short treatise on the game of whist
  • Beteiligte: Hoyle, Edmond [Verfasser:in];
  • Erschienen: London: Printed for Tho. Osborne: and sold by W. Reeve, at Shakespear's-Head, near Serjeant's-Inn-Gate, in Fleet-Street, 1748
    Online-Ausg., Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Umfang: Online-Ressource ([8],84;24,121-224,[16]p); 12°
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Schlagwörter: Games England London Early works to 1800 ; Whist England London Early works to 1800
  • Reproduktionsreihe: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • Art der Reproduktion: Online-Ausg.
  • Hersteller der Reproduktion: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Reproduktionsnotiz: Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web
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  • Anmerkungen: 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
    English Short Title Catalog, T87516
    Half-title: 'Mr. Hoyle's treatises of whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, and back-gammon.'
    Jessel. F. A bibliography of works in English on playing cards and gaming, 801
    Price in square brackets: (Price Three Shillings.)
    Reproduction of original from British Library
    The text is continuous
    Titlepage in red and black
    With two final advertisement leaves