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Backgammon.D.Wilson.1*
Backgammon, printed for Peter Wilson, first edition, 1752.
| Title: |
A SHORT | TREATISE | On the Game of | BACK-GAMMON. |
CONTAINING, | A Table of the thirty-ſix Chances, with Directions | how to find
out the Odds of being hit, upon ſingle, | or double Dice. | Rules whereby a
Beginner may, with due Attention | to them, attain playing it well. | The
ſeveral Stages for carrying your Men home, in | order to loſe no Point. |
How to find out who is forwardeſt to win a Hit. | Caſes ſtated for
Back-Games, with Directions how | to play for one. | Caſes ſtated, how to
know when you may have the | better of ſaving a Gammon by running. | Variety
of Caſes of Curioſity and Inſtruction. | The Laws of the Game. | By EDMOND HOYLE, Gent. | DUBLIN: | Printed for Peter Wilson, in Dame-ſtreet. | M, DCC, LII. |
| Collation: |
12o: A–B6 C4 [$½ signed]; 16 leaves, pp. [1–3] 4–28 [29–32] |
| Contents: |
Signature (Page) Reference |
Contents |
Signature (Page) Reference |
Running Titles |
| A1r (1) |
section title backgammon |
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| A1v (2) |
blank |
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| A2r–C2r (3–27) |
‘[double rule] | A Short | TREATISE | On the Game of | BACK-GAMMON. | [...]’ |
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| C2v (28) |
‘THE | LAWS | OF | BACK-GAMMON. | [...]’ |
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| C3r–C4r (29–31) |
‘[double rule] | An Alphabetical | TABLE | OF THE | CONTENTS. | [...]’ |
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| C4v (32) |
blank |
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| Catchwords: |
A5r(9) Six [XI. Six]; C3v(30) an [Hitting,] |
| Publisher: |
Peter Wilson |
| Copies Seen in Collections: |
O [Jessel e.642] (ECCO) (see Wilson.B); O [Jessel f.573] (see Wilson.B); Copisarow (see Wilson.A); CSmH [356641] (see Wilson.B); NvLN [GV1241.H86 1752] (see Wilson.C); OCl [789.87H F52D] (see Wilson.C); TNJ [GV1241.H8P 1752a] (see Wilson.B); Levy [1770] (see Wilson.A); Levy [1791] (see Wilson.B) |
| Other Copies in Collections: |
Gsu [Special Coll. Anderson] (see Wilson.C) |
| Notes: |
This work was not sold seaparetely, but was included in three different versions of
the Wilson collection The Polite Gamester. |
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