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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] | MDCCCXXXIV. | STIRLING & KENNEY, EDINBURGH; | SIMPKIN & MARSHALL, H. WASHBOURNE, | AND ORR & SMITH, LONDON. |
| Collation: | 32o: π4 A–F8 G8 [$1 signed]; 60 leaves, pp. [i–v] vi–vii [viii], [1] 2–69 [70] 71–108 [4 ] |
| Engraved Title: | ![]() |
| Contents: | Signature (Page) Reference | Contents | Signature (Page) Reference | Running Titles |
| π1r (i) | title | |||
| π1v (ii) | ‘Entered in Stationers Hall. | [colophon]’ | |||
| π2r (iii) | ‘ADVERTISEMENT. | [...] | E. T. | Edin. 1st April 1828.’ | |||
| π2v (iv) | blank | |||
| π3r–π4r (v–vii) | ‘CONTENTS. | [...]’ | π3v–π4r (vi–vii) | ‘CONTENTS.’ | |
| π4v (viii) | blank | |||
| A1r–G6v (1–108) | see Hardie.2 | A1r–G6v (1–108) | see Hardie.2 | |
| G7r–G8v | 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 1834 on G3r(101) woodblock: a tapis or cloth covering the Rouge et Noir table |
| Publisher: | Stirling & Kenney, Simpkin and Marshall, Henry Washbourne, Orr & Smith |
| Printer: | Robert Hardie (colophon) |
| Advertisements: | 1834-02-08 Manchester Times: HOYLE MADE FAMILIAR. Containing the Rules of every Card Game, as practised in the best Society. By Eidrah Trebor, Esq. In royal 32mo. Price 3s. 6d. Embossed in roan, gilt edges." |
| Price: | 3s.6d. (advertisement), 2s.6d. (cover) |
| Colophon: | ‘Printed by R. Hardie,’ |
| Copies Seen: | BFl [I.795/TREB (b1124772)]; E [Alex.I.7]; O [Jessel f.490]; Copisarow [2 copies]; TxU [GV1243.H26 1834]; Levy [1595] |
| Notes: | The same setting of type as Hardie.2 with updated preliminaries. The book is stereoplated and there is at least one noteworthy difference. In some copies (O, TxU), A1r begins "Companion to the Family Card=Table" just as Hardie.2. In others (both Copisarow copies and Levy), the heading has changed to "Companion to the Card=Table", although it is otherwise the same setting of type. |