Mr. Hoyle's games of whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, and back-gammon, complete. In which are contained, the method of playing and betting at those games, upon equal, or advantageous terms. Including the laws of the several games

People / Organizations

• Edmond Hoyle (Author)
• Richard Baldwin Jr. ("printed for")

Imprint

London: printed for Thomas Osborne, in Gray's-Inn; Henry Woodfall, and Richard Baldwin, both in Pater-noster-row, [1767] The fourteenth edition. To which is now first added, two new cases at whist, ... also the new laws of ... whist, as played at White's and Saunders's chocolate-houses.; ..

Publication year

1767

ESTC No.

T88034

Grub Street ID

308037

Description

xii,216p. ; 12°.

Note

"No copies of this book are genuine, but what are signed by the author"

Some copies may be found with an additional titlepage

Below imprint, in square brackets: Price three shillings neatly bound

First advertised in the "St. James's chronicle or the British evening post", 12 Dec. 1767.

Uncontrolled note

BL's copy has two titlepages; 245 from the first, which has a rule above and another below the edition statement (the second titlepage only has a rule above its edition statement). Pagination here (t88034) omits BL's second tp