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Title: | HOYLE's GAMES | IMPROVED: | BEING | Practical Treatises on the follow-|ing Fashionable Games, Viz. | [four lines to left of rule] WHIST | QUADRILLE | PIQUET | BACK-GAMMON | [four lines to right of rule] CHESS | BILLIARDS | AND | TENNIS. | WITH | The eſtabliſhed Rules of Game. | [rule] | By JAMES BEAUFORT, Esq. | Of Cavendish-Square. | [oxford rule] | PHILADELPHIA: | PRINTED FOR AND SOLD BY H. AND P. RICE, | No. 50 MARKET STREET. | SOLD ALSO BY JAMES RICE AND CO. MARKET | STREET, BALTIMORE. | [short oxford rule] | 1796. |
| Collation: | 18o: A–S6 [$½ signed; signing S3 as S2]; 108 leaves, pp. [i–iii] iv–v [vi] vii–xi [xii], [1] 2–18 [19–20] 21–74 [75] 76–118 [119] 120–142 [143] 144–165 [166] 167–175 [176] 177–194 [195] 196–204 |
| Contents: | Signature (Page) Reference | Contents | Signature (Page) Reference | Running Titles |
| A1r (i) | title | |||
| A1v (ii) | blank | |||
| A2r–S6v (iii–204) | See Beaufort.US.1.1 (1796) | A2v–S6v (iv–204) | See Beaufort.US.1.1 (1796) |
| Publisher: | H. and P. Rice |
| Printer: | William Spotswood |
| References: | ESTC W12793, Horr 149, Jessel 91, Rather 74 |
| Copies Seen: | O [Jessel f.109] (ECCO); DLC [GV1201.B4 Copy 1]; MWA [DB] (Evans); OCl [789.87H F96B]; PHi [Am 1796 Hoy Api 796 R41]; Levy [1839] |
| Other Copies: | NN [*KD 1796]; OClWHi [GV1241.B374]; RPJCB [D796.B374h] |
| Notes: | The same setting of type as Beaufort.US.1.1 (Boston) and Beaufort.US.1.2 (New York). |