Hoyle's games improved [electronic resource] : 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.
1778
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Hoyle's games improved [electronic resource] : 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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London : printed for W. Wood, in Fleet-Street; and sold by all booksellers, M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
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xi,[1],216p. ; 18⁰.
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'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.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
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English Short Title Catalog, T128016.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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