| Item Description: | At foot of title: Entered at Stationers Hall. - Authorship is given on p.[3]. - Cf. T478906 and T194637 for other editions with different titles, pagination, etc. - English Short Title Catalog, T58325. - No full stop at end of title. - Pages vi-xviii contain the text of the 'Parlour companion', including an abridged version of the rules of whist by Edmond Hoyle, and a table of taxes. - Printed not before October 1794 on internal evidence. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - Signatures: [pi]1 Ap1s Bp6s Cp4s (C4+1). - The pagination is eccentric from p.[6] to p.[31] in that the versos and rectos are paginated in two parallel sequences, lower case roman and arabic respectively |
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