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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: | 32o: 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 (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–G5v (1–106) | see Hardie.2 | A1r–G5v (1–106) | see Hardie.2 | |
| G6r–G8v (107–112) | ‘SHORT WHIST. | [...] | [colophon]’ | G6v (108) | ‘SHORT WHIST.’ | |
| G7r–G8v (109–112) | ‘WHIST.’ |
| 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] |
| Notes: | The same setting of type as Hardie.4 with an updated title page. |