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:
- M.DCC.XCI. [1791]
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Publication/Creation
Dublin : printed by R. M. Butler, Bookseller, No. 31, Grafton-Street, M.DCC.XCI. [1791]
Physical description
[4],iv,87,[1]p. ; 80.
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References note
ESTC T127978
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.