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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] | MDCCCXXXVIII. | 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 |
| 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) | see Hardie.4 | G6r–G8v (107–112) | 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.2 with updated preliminaries and the added material from Hardie.4 on the last three leaves. |