An epitome of Hoyle, with Beaufort and Jones's Hoyle improved; or, Practical treatises on the following games. Hazard, backgammon, tennis, billiards, cricket, chess, draughts, whist, quadrille, piquet, lansquenet, and quinze. With an account of the present fashionable game called e-o, played at most of the polite chocolate houses, never before attempted in print. Comprising the laws and rules of the several games, as settled at White's, Stapleton's, &c. &c. Also the most advantageous method of betting at those games, and the erroneous odds introduced in former productions of a similar kind, rectified. By a Member of the Jockey Club.
- Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.
- Date:
- [1783?]
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Publication/Creation
London : printed for C. Etherington, at the Circulating Library, No. 137, Fleet-Street, [1783?]
Physical description
[4],iii,[1],87,[1]p. : ill. ; 120.
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References note
ESTC T224606