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EDMUND HOYLE
Hoyle's Games improved: being practical treatises on ... whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, back-gammon, draughts, cricket, tennis, quinze, hazard, lansquenet, and billiards, edited by Charles Jones
London: J.F. and C. Rivington [and others], 1779. 12° (6¼ x 3¾in; 160 x 94mm), 2 engraved plates of fortification billiards, woodcut of draught table (plates spotted, occasional light staining), contemporary sheep (spine worn, front cover detached, stitching weak); together with The New Pocket Hoyle part 2 in original slipcase (1808, final leaves detached, without title-page) and 4 other editions of the same work (1790, 1800, 1808 ex Goldman, and 1835).
Although Hoyle died in 1769, the work which had started as a simple treatise on whist lived on, the 1775 edition being the first to include the laws of cricket. cf. Padwick 153. (6)
Hoyle's Games improved: being practical treatises on ... whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, back-gammon, draughts, cricket, tennis, quinze, hazard, lansquenet, and billiards, edited by Charles Jones
London: J.F. and C. Rivington [and others], 1779. 12° (6¼ x 3¾in; 160 x 94mm), 2 engraved plates of fortification billiards, woodcut of draught table (plates spotted, occasional light staining), contemporary sheep (spine worn, front cover detached, stitching weak); together with The New Pocket Hoyle part 2 in original slipcase (1808, final leaves detached, without title-page) and 4 other editions of the same work (1790, 1800, 1808 ex Goldman, and 1835).
Although Hoyle died in 1769, the work which had started as a simple treatise on whist lived on, the 1775 edition being the first to include the laws of cricket. cf. Padwick 153. (6)
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