Hoyle's games improved. Being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, back-gammon, draughts, cricket, Tennis, Quinze, Hazard, Lansquenet, and Billiards. 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 White's and Stapleton's Chocolate-Houses, the Star and Garter, &c. Revised and corrected by Charles Jones Esq.
- Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.
- Date:
- [1786]
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Publication/Creation
London : printed for J. F. and C. Rivingto T. Payne and Son, S. Crowder, R. Baldwin, B. Law, W. and C. Domville, W. Lowndes, E. Newbery, S. Bladon, and G. and T. Wilkie, [1786]
Physical description
vi,306p.,plate ; 180.
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Edition
A new edition, enlarged.
References note
ESTC T87525
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.