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

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

A rare, late 18^th-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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