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Title: | HOYLE | MADE FAMILIAR: | BEING | A Companion to the Card Table: | CONTAINING THE ESTABLISHED RULES AND | PRACTICE OF | THIRTY CARD GAMES. | By EIDRAH TREBOR, Esq. | NINTH EDITION. | “I am sorry I have not learnt to play cards. It is very | useful in life; it generates kindness and consolidates so-|ciety.”—Dr. Johnson. | STIRLING, KENNEY, & Co. EDINBURGH; | AND Wm. S. ORR & Co. LONDON. |
| Collation: | 32o: [A]8 B–G8 H4 [I]2 [$1 signed]; 62 leaves, pp. [2 ] [i–v] vi–vii [viii–x], [1] 2–112 |
| Engraved Title: |  |
| Contents: | Signature (Page) Reference | Contents | Signature (Page) Reference | Running Titles |
| A1r–A1v | blank | |||
| A2r (i) | title | |||
| A2v (ii) | blank | |||
| A3r (iii) | ‘Entered in Stationers Hall.’ | |||
| A3v (iv) | blank | |||
| A4r–A5r (v–vii) | ‘CONTENTS. | [...]’ | A4v–A5r (vi–vii) | ‘CONTENTS.’ | |
| A5v (viii) | blank | |||
| A6r (ix) | ‘ADVERTISEMENT. | [...]’ | |||
| A6v (x) | blank | |||
| A7r–H3v (1–106) | see Hardie.2 | A7r–H3v (1–106) | see Hardie.2 | |
| H4r–I2v (107–112) | see Hardie.4 | H4r–I2v (107–112) | 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 dated 1843 on H1r(101) woodblock: a tapis or cloth covering the Rouge et Noir table |
| Publisher: | Stirling, Kenney, & Co., W. S. Orr & Co. |
| Printer: | Stevenson & Co. (colophon) |
| References: | Jessel 703, Rather 152 |
| Colophon: | ‘STEVENSON & CO. PRINTERS, | THISTLE STREET.’ |
| Copies Seen: | O [Jessel g.89]; O [Johnson g.200*]; Copisarow [3 copies]; Levy [2026] |
| Other Copies: | CtY [NLp57 843h] |
| Notes: | The same setting of type as Hardie.2 with new preliminaries and the added material from Hardie.4 on the last three leaves. The book has been imposed differently as is evident from the change in collation formula and signatures. In some copies the A gathering is A8 (-A1,2) and the last gatherings are H8 (-H7,8) without an I gathering. |