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| Title: | BAILEY'S NEW EDITION. | [short reverse oxford rule] | HOYLE'S | SCIENTIFIC | GAME OF WHIST; | correctly stated, | AND | LAID DOWN IN A CLEAR AND COMPREHENSIVE | MANNER FOR THE | EASY ACQUIREMENT OF BEGINNERS; | [five lines to left of woodblock] WITH | USEFUL | HINTS | TO | PROFICIENTS. | [five lines to right of woodblock] AND | CALCULATIONS | NECESSARY | FOR | BETTING. | London: | PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. BAILEY, | 188, FLEET STREET. | 1825. |
| Collation: | 12o: A12 B12 [$1–3 signed]; 24 leaves, pp. [1–3] 4–47 [48] |
| Contents: | Signature (Page) Reference | Contents | Signature (Page) Reference | Running Titles |
| A1r (1) | title | |||
| A1v (2) | blank | |||
| A2r–B12r (3–47) | ‘Hoyle's Game of Whist. | [...] | [colophon]’ | A2r–B12r (3–47) | ‘THE GAME OF WHIST.’ | |
| B12v (48) | ‘[rule] | Also just published, uniform with this | edition, a Companion to the Card | Table, containing the Games now | in practice. | [rule]’ |
| Plates: | Frontispiece woodblock: A gentleman and three ladies playing at whist, with the caption Hoyle's Game of Whist.
J. Bailey Publisher, 66, Gray's Inn Lane, Holburn, London on A1r(1) woodblock: a playing card, the club king |
| Publisher: | Joseph Bailey |
| Printer: | Joseph Bailey (colophon) |
| References: | Jessel 821, Rather 121 |
| Colophon: | ‘[short rule] | Printed by J. Bailey, 188, Fleet Street.’ |
| Copies Seen: | O [Jessel f.634] |
| Notes: | The title page describes this as "Bailey's New Edition" with an address of 188, Fleet Street. The frontispiece shows an address of 66 Gray's Inn, suggesting that there may have been an earlier edition published from the Gray's Inn address. Bailey apparently also published a Companion to the Card Table, but no copies have survived. See the note on B12v(48). |