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. 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. The whole founded on the experience of Edmond Hoyle, Gent [electronic resource].

Short treatise on the game of whist

London : printed for Tho. Osborne: and sold by W. Reeve, at Shakespear's-Head, near Serjeant's-Inn-Gate, in Fleet-Street, [1748] [1750]

Great Britain -- England -- London.

English

[4],84,24,121-224,[12]p. ; 12⁰.

Titlepage in red and black.
With initial and final advertisement leaves.
With separate titlepages to each treatise: 'A short treatise on the game of whist. .. The tenth edition', printed for T. Osborne, 1750; 'A short treatise on the game of quadrille. .. The second edition', printed for T. Osborne; J. Hildyard, at York; M. Bryson at Newcastle; an J. Leake, at Bath, 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 in 1748.
Price from imprint: price Three Shilling.
Reproduction of original from William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (UCLA).

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English Short Title Catalog, N22957.

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