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
by Edmond Hoyle
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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
1748, Printed for Tho. Osborne and sold by W. Reeve, at Shakespear's-Head, near Serjeant's-Inn-Gate, in Fleet-Street
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- 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.
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At foot of title page, within parentheses: "Price Three Shillings."
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D¹² A¹² F-L¹².
Title in red and black.
Head- and tail-pieces; initials.
Printer's advertisements on the first unnumbered leaf verso and on the final two leaves.
With separate title pages for each treatise: 'A short treatise on the game of whist ... The tenth edition', printed for T. Osborne at Gray's-Inn, 1748; 'A short treatise on the game of quadrille ... The second edition', printed for T. Osborne, at Gray's-Inn; J. Hildyard, at York; M. Bryson at Newcastle; and J. Leake, at Bath, MDCCXLVIII [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, at Gray's-Inn MDCCXLVIII [1748].
BM (compact ed.), v. 12, p. 769
ESTC, T87516
Jessel. F. Bibliography of works in English on playing cards and gaming, 801
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