A Descriptive Bibliography of Edmond Hoyle

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Hardie.6

Hoyle Made Familiar, Stirling, Kenney, & Co., sixth impression, 1838.

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] | MDCCCXXXVIII. | 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
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: 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: Rather 141
Colophon: ‘R. HARDIE, PRINTER.’
Other Copies: OC [795 H26.2]
Notes: Description made from reproduction of Cincinnati (OC) copy which lacks an engraged frontispiece and added title page.

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.

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