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Title: | HOYLE | MADE FAMILIAR; | BEING A | Companion to the Card=Table: | CONTAINING | THE ESTABLISHED RULES AND PRACTICE | OF | THIRTY DIFFERENT GAMES, | SEVERAL OF THEM NEVER BEOFRE PUBLISHED. | BY | EIDRAH TREBOR, ESQ. | “ I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. | “ It is very useful in life: it generates kindness | “ and consolidates society.”—Dr. Johnson. | [short rule] | MDCCCXXXIII. | STIRLING & KENNEY, EDINBURGH; | SIMPKIN & MARSHALL, H. WASHBOURNE, | AND W. S. ORR, LONDON. |
| Collation: | 24o: π4 A–F8 G8(−G8 missing, blank?) [$1 signed]; 59 leaves, pp. [i–v] vi–vii [viii], [1] 2–69 [70] 71–108 [2 ] |
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| Contents: | Signature (Page) Reference | Contents | Signature (Page) Reference | Running Titles |
| π1r (i) | title | |||
| π1v (ii) | ‘Entered in Stationers Hall.’ | |||
| π2r–π4v (iii–viii) | see Hardie.1 | π2r–π4v (iii–viii) | see Hardie.1 | |
| A1r–G5v (1–106) | see Hardie.1 | A1r–G5v (1–106) | see Hardie.1 | |
| G6r–G6v (107–108) | ‘SHORT WHIST. | [...]’ | G6v (108) | ‘SHORT WHIST.’ | |
| G7r–G7v | blank |
| Plates: | Frontispiece engraving: Two couples at card table with two females spectators. Drawn by J. Stewart. Engraved
on steel by W. H. Lizars Title engraving: extra engraved title having only the first publisher and dated 1833 on G3r(101) woodblock: a tapis or cloth covering the Rouge et Noir table |
| Publisher: | Stirling & Kenney, Simpkin and Marshall, Henry Washbourne, William Sommerville Orr |
| Price: | 2s.6d. (cover) |
| References: | Rather 136 |
| Copies Seen: | O [Johnson f.2064]; Levy [1660] |
| Other Copies: | CaOKQ [GV1243.H37 1833t]; LU [GV1243.H37]; OC [795 H26] |
| Notes: | The same setting of type as Hardie.1 with updated preliminaries and with added material on short whist on G6(107-8). Some copies of the book are bound with printed paper covered boards. Interestingly, the title of the book on the wrappers is not Hoyle Made Familiar, but Hoyles Games Improved. |