1778 Hoyle’s GAMES Cards Poker Gambling CHESS Tennis Archery Billiards Cricket

HOYLE, Edmond

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A rare, late 18th-century printing of Edmond Hoyle’s treatise on popular games. This important book is filled with game strategy, rules, game play moves, methods for improving, and tactics for winning. Hoyle wrote on card games, chess, backgammon, billiards, cricket and tennis, and lesser-known games such as viz, whist, duinze, and lansquenet.

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1778 Hoyle’s GAMES Cards Poker Gambling CHESS Tennis Archery Billiards Cricket

 

A rare, late 18th-century printing of Edmond Hoyle’s treatise on popular games. This important book is filled with game strategy, rules, game play moves, methods for improving, and tactics for winning. Hoyle wrote on card games, chess, backgammon, billiards, cricket and tennis, and lesser-known games such as viz, whist, duinze, and lansquenet.

 

Item number: #2584

Price: $750

 

HOYLE, Edmond

 

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

 

London : Printed for W. Wood, in Fleet-Street ; And sold by all Booksellers, M, DCC, LXXVIII. [1778]

 

Details:

  • Collation complete with all pages: [xi], [1], 216
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Leather; tight & secure
  • Size: ~5.5in X 3.75in (14cm x 9.5cm)

 

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2584

Category

Other

Authors

HOYLE, Edmond

Printing Date

18th Century

Language

English

Binding

Leather

Book Condition

Excellent

Collation

Complete