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001 93104984
003 DLC
005 19931001115734.3
008 930114s1747 enk 000 0 eng
010 $a 93104984
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC$edcrb
050 00 $aGV1277$b.H89 1747
100 1 $aHoyle, Edmond,$d1672-1769.
245 12 $aA short treatise on the game of whist :$bcontaining the laws of the game and also some rules whereby a beginner may, with due attention to them, attain to the playing it well ... with variety of cases added in the appendix /$cby Edmond Hoyle ...
250 $aThe seventh edition, with great additions to the laws of the game and an explanation of the calculations which are necessary to be understood by those who would play it well, and also, never before published, a dictionary for whist, which resolves almost all the critical cases that may happen at the game, to which is added, An artificial memory, or, An easy method of assisting the memory of those that play at the game of whist, and several cases not hitherto published.
260 $aLondon :$bPrinted for T. Osborne ... J. Hildyard ... M. Bryson ... and J. Leake,$c1747.
300 $a[6], 80 p. ;$c17 cm. (12mo)
500 $aSignatures: pi1 2pi² B-G⁶ H⁴.
500 $aWith: Hoyle, Edmond. A short treatise on the game of quadrille. London : Printed for F. Cogan ..., 1744. Hoyle, Edmond. A short treatise on the game of piquet. London : Printed for T. Osborn ... J. Hildyard ... M. Bryson ... and J. Leake, 1746. Hoyle, Edmond. A short treatise on the game of back-gammon. London : Printed for T. Osborn ... J. Hildyard ... M. Bryson ... and J. Leake, 1745. Bound together subsequent to publication.$5DLC
500 $aLC copy signed by the author.$5DLC
500 $aSource: Gift of John J. and Hanna M. McManus and Morris N. and Chesley V. Young, Oct. 12, 1955.$5DLC
650 0 $aWhist$xEarly works to 1800.
700 12 $aHoyle, Edmond,$d1672-1769.$tArtificial memory.$f1747.
710 21 $aMcManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress)$5DLC