A Descriptive Bibliography of Edmond Hoyle

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Quadrille.1.1

A Short Treatise on the Game of Quadrille, printed for F. Cogan, first London edition, 1744.

quadrille.1.1.jpg Title: A SHORT | TREATISE | On the GAME of | Quadrille. | SHEWING | The Odds of winning or loſing moſt | Games that are commonly played; | either by calling a King, or by playing | Sans Prendre. | To which is added | The LAWS of the GAME. | [rule] | By Edmond Hoyle, Gent. | [double rule] | LONDON: | Printed for F. Cogan at the | Middle-Temple-Gate. 1744. | Price Two Shillings and Six Pence.
Collation: 12o: A–B12 [$1–5 (−A2) signed]; 24 leaves, pp. [1–5] 6–44 [45–48]
Half Title: [headpiece] | A SHORT | TREATISE | On the Game of | QUADRILLE. | [headpiece]
Contents: Signature (Page) Reference Contents Signature (Page) Reference Running Titles
A1r (1) half title
A1v (2) ‘[headpiece] | TO THE | READER. | The Author has thought | proper to inform the Pub-|lick, That no Copies of theſe Books | are genuine, but ſuch as are | ſigned by him. | [autograph of Edmond Hoyle] | [headpiece]’
A2r (3) title
A2v (4) blank
A3r–B10v (5–44) ‘[headpiece] | A Treatiſe on the Game of | QUADRILLE. | [...]’ A3v–B10r (6–43) ‘A ſhort Treatiſe on the | Game of Quadrille.’
B10v (44) ‘A ſhort Treatiſe, &c.’
B11r (45) ‘[headpiece] | To the Reader. | [...]’
B11v (46) Advertisement for Whist.4
B12r (47) ‘[headpiece] | ☞Whoever Pirates either of theſe | Works will be ſued. The Proprietor | has already obtained an Injunction | againſt Nine Perſons for pirating or | ſelling pirated Editions of one of them. | [headpiece]’
B12v (48) ‘[headpiece] | CONTENTS. | [...]’
Publisher: Francis Cogan
Printer: John Watts (ornaments)
Advertisements: 1744-10-31 Daily Post: "This day is publish'd, price 2s. 6d..." Advertised with Whist (edition unclear), Memory.1, Backgammon.1, Piquet.1.1
Notices: 1744-12 The London Magazine: (Google)
Price: 2s.6d. (title, advertisement, notice)
References: ESTC T179916, Jessel 781, Marshall s7 no.8 p262 (1889-10-05), Rather 16
Copies Seen: NvLN [GV1277.H89 1744]
Copies Seen in Collections: O [12 Theta 1318(3)] (see Cogan.D); O [Jessel f.543(3)] (see Cogan.D); O [Jessel f.583] (ECCO) (see Cogan.D); Levy [2112] (see Osborne.D)

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