A Descriptive Bibliography of Edmond Hoyle
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Hardie.5
Hoyle Made Familiar, Stirling & Kenney, fifth impression, 1837.
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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] | MDCCCXXXVII. | STIRLING, KENNEY, & CO. EDINBURGH; | SIMPKIN, MARSHALL & CO., H. W. WASHBOURNE, | AND W. S. ORR & CO. LONDON. |
| Collation: | 24o: π4 A–G8 [$1 signed]; 60 leaves, pp. [i–v] vi–vii [viii], [1] 2–112 |
| Engraved Title: |  |
| 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 (107) | see Hardie.2 | G6r (107) | see Hardie.2 | |
| G6v–G8v (108–112) | see Hardie.4 | G6v–G8v (108–112) | see Hardie.4 |
| 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 1837 (1836 in O copy). on G3r(101) woodblock: a tapis or cloth covering the Rouge et Noir table |
| Publisher: | Stirling, Kenney, & Co., Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., Henry Washbourne, W. S. Orr & Co. |
| Printer: | Robert Hardie (colophon) |
| References: | Jessel 702 |
| Colophon: | ‘R. HARDIE, PRINTER.’ |
| Copies Seen: | O [Jessel f.492]; Levy [2025] |
| Other Copies: | LT [Wb 685] |
| Notes: | The same setting of type as Hardie.1 with updated preliminaries, the material on short whist from Hardie.2 and new material on whist from Hardie.4. |