A Descriptive Bibliography of Edmond Hoyle

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Hoyle's Card Games, printed for E. Barret, first edition, Bath, 1824.

card.1.jpg Title: HOYLE'S | CARD GAMES, | COMPLETE; | With | An Appendix, | CONTAINING HIS | GUIDE TO THE TURF. | [short oxford rule] | BATH: | PRINTED FOR E. BARRET ORANGE GROVE; | SOLD BY BUMPUS, HOLBORN; CRAWFORD, | CHEAPSIDE; CLARK, ROYAL-EXCHANGE; | & FLINT, BURLINGTON ARCADE. | [short rule] | 1824
Collation: 16o: A2 B–H8 I8(−I8 missing, blank?) [$1 (+B3) signed]; 65 leaves, pp. [4 ] [1] 2–101 [102] 103–126
Label: card.1.label.jpg [seven lines within a frame] HOYLE'S | CARD GAMES, | AND | GUIDE TO THE TURF. | [short oxford rule] | Price One Shilling. | 1824.
Engraved Title: card.1.engraved.title.jpg
Contents: Signature (Page) Reference Contents Signature (Page) Reference Running Titles
A1r title
A1v colophon
A2r ‘CONTENTS. | [...]’
A2v blank
B1r–C2r (1–19) ‘THE | POCKET HOYLE. | [short rule] | THE GAME OF WHIST. | [...]’ B1v–C2r (2–19) ‘WHIST.’
on B2r (3) ‘WHIST’
C2r–C3v (19–22) ‘[...] | THE GAME OF ALL FOURS. | [...]’ C2v–C3v (20–22) ‘ALL FOURS.’
C3v–C6r (22–27) ‘[...] | THE GAME OF CASSINO. | [...]’ C4r–C6r (23–27) ‘CASSINO.’
C6r–D4r (27–39) ‘[...] | THE GAME OF CRIBBAGE. | [...]’ C6v–D3v (28–38) ‘CRIBBAGE.’
on C8r–C8v (31–32) ‘CRIBBAGE’
D4r–D4v (39–40) ‘[...] | THE GAME OF CONNEXIONS. | [...]’ D4r (39) ‘CONNEXIONS.’
D4v–D5v (40–42) ‘[...] | THE GAME OF LANSQUENET. | [...]’ D4v–D5r (40–41) ‘LANSQUENET.’
D5v–D6r (42–43) ‘[...] | THE GAME OF MATRIMONY. | [...]’ D5v (42) ‘MATRIMONY’
on D6r (43) ‘MATRIMONY.’
D6r–E7v (43–62) ‘[...] | THE GAME OF PIQUET. | [...]’ D6v–E7v (44–62) ‘PIQUET.’
E7v–F1r (62–65) ‘[...] | THE GAME OF PUT. | [...]’ E8r–E8v (63–64) ‘PUT.’
F1r–F5r (65–73) ‘[...] | THE GAME OF PHARO. | [...]’ F1r–F4v (65–72) ‘PHARO.’
F5r–G2v (73–84) ‘[...] | THE GAME OF QUADRILLE. | [...]’ F5r–G2r (73–83) ‘QUADRILLE.’
G2v–G3r (84–85) ‘[...] | THE GAME OF QUINZE. | [...]’ G2v (84) ‘QUINZE.’
G3r–G5r (85–89) ‘[...] | THE GAME OF ROUGE ET NOIR. | [...]’ G3r–G4v (85–88) ‘ROUGE ET NOIR.’
G5r–G6v (89–92) ‘[...] | THE GAME OF VINGT-UN. | [...]’ G5r–G6r (89–91) ‘VINGT-UN.’
G6v–G7v (92–94) ‘[...] | THE GAME OF LOO. | [...]’ G6v–G7r (92–93) ‘LOO.’
G7v–G8v (94–96) ‘[...] | THE GAME OF BRAG. | [...]’ G7v–G8v (94–96) ‘BRAG.’
H1r–H2r (97–99) ‘THE GAME OF POPE, OR POPE JOAN. | [...]’ H1r–H1v (97–98) ‘POPE JOAN.’
H2r–H3r (99–101) ‘[...] | THE GAME OF COMMERCE. | [...] | THE END.’ H2r–H3r (99–101) ‘COMMERCE.’
H3v–I7v (102–126) ‘HOYLE'S | GUIDE TO THE TURF. | [...]’ H4r–I7v (103–126) ‘HORSE-RACING.’
on H5r (105) ‘HORSE-RACING’
Plates: Title engraving: extra title page reading "Hoyle's Games The Bath Edition" with the image of a playing card duty stamp from Hunt & Sons.
Publisher: E. Barret
Printer: W. McDowall (colophon)
Price: 1s. (label)
Colophon: ‘W. McDowall, Printer, Pemberton Row, | Gough Square.’
Copies Seen: L [RB.8.a.119]; O [Jessel g.99]; NvLN [GV1241.H69 1824]; TNJ [GV1243.H84 1824]; Levy [1771]
Other Copies: CtY-LW [63 824 H85]
Notes: The book consists of all the card games from Pocket.1 with the exception of Reversis and Speculation. Whist and Quadrille are shortened; otherwise the text is identical, although the games are ordered differently. The material on Loo, Brag, Pope Joan, and Horse Racing are from Charles Jones' Hoyle's Games Improved, likely Jones.10 (1820). The material on horse racing, presented as an appendix at the end of the book, is shortened. The material on Commerce appears to be original, and is repeated in Smith.

The L and NvLN copies have a variant imprint and colophon. The imprint reads "AND SOLD BY BUMPUS..." leaving different subsequent line breaks. The colophon reads "Gough" rather than "Gough Square." The books are otherwise the same setting of type.

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