Hoyle's games improved being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist, quadrille, piquet, Chess, Back-Cammon, Billiards, Cricket, Tennis, Duinze, Hazard, and Lansquenet. In Which Are Also Contained The Method of Betting at those Games upon equal or advantageous Terms. Including The Laws of the several Games, as settled and agreed to at Whites and Stapleton's Chocolate Houses. Revised and corrected by Thomas Jones, Esq
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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London
printed for W. Wood, in Fleet-Street; and sold by all booksellers
1778, M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]
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Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Item Description: | 'A short treatise on the game of whist', 'A short treatise on the game of quadrille; .. The eighth edition', 'A short treatise on the game of piquet; .. The eighth edition' and 'A short treatise on the game of back-gammon. .. The ninth edition' have separate divisional titlepages; text and register are continuous. - English Short Title Catalog, T128016. - Reproduction of original from British Library |
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Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (xi,[1],216p) 18° |