An epitome of Hoyle with Beaufort and Jones's Hoyle improved; or, practical treatises on the following games. Hazard, backgammon, tennis, Billiards, Cricket, Chess, Draughts, Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Lansquenet, and Quinze. With an Account of the present fashionable Game called E-O, played at most of the polite Chocolate Houses, never before attempted in Print. Comprising the Laws and Rules of the several Games, as settled at White's, Stapleton's, &c. &c. Also the most advantageous Method of Betting at those Games, and the erroneous Odds introduced in former Productions of a similar kind, rectified. By a member of the Jockey Club
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Dublin
printed by R. M. Butler, Bookseller, No. 31, Grafton-Street
1791, M.DCC.XCI. [1791]
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Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Item Description: | Braces in imprint. - English Short Title Catalog, T127978. - Reproduction of original from British Library |
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Physical Description: | Online-Ressource ([4],iv,87,[1]p) 8° |