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Title: |
A SHORT | TREATISE | On the Game of | WHIST. | CONTAINING | The LAWS of the GAME: | AND ALSO | Some Rules, whereby a Beginner may, | with due Attention to them, attain to | the
Playing it well. | Calculations for thoſe who will Bet the | Odds on any Point of the Score of the |
Game then playing and depending. | Cases ſtated, to ſhew what may be effected | by a very good Player in
Critical Parts | of the Game. | References to Cases, viz. at the End of | the Rule you are directed how to find them. | Calculations, directing with moral Certainty, | how to play well any Hand or Game,
by ſhewing | the Chances of your Partner's having | 1, 2, or 3 Certain
Cards. | With Variety of Caſes added in the Appendix | [rule] | By Edmund Hoyle, Gent. | [rule] | The Second Edition. | With great Additions to the Laws of the Game, and an | Explanation of the Calculations which are neceſſary to be |
underſtood by thoſe who would play it well, &c. &c. | [rule] | LONDON. | Printed for F. Cogan at the Middle-Temple-gate. | MDCCXLIII. | (Price Two Shillings.) |
| Collation: |
12o: A6(A2+1) B6 χ2(χ2+5) C–D12 E8 [$1–5 (−A2,4,5,B4,5,E5) signed; signing A2+1 as A2]; 52 leaves, pp. [10 ] [1] 2–10, χ5–10 11–86 [87–88] [χ5–10 numbered with prefixed *] |