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Title: | HOYLE ABRIDGED: | OR, | SHORT RULES | FOR | SHORT MEMORIES | AT THE | GAMES OF WHIST, | AND | CRIBBAGE, | WITH THE | LAWS OF THE GAMES, | ADAPTED EITHER | FOR THE HEAD OR POCKET, | BY | BOB SHORT. | For the use of Families, to prevent Scolding. | [short rule] | THREEPENCE. | [short rule] | LONDON: | PRINTED & PUBLISHED BY W. S. JOHNSON | 60, St. Martin's Lane, Charing Cross. |
| Collation: | 10.3 x 6.4: [A]16 [$5 signed]; 16 leaves, pp. [1–5] 6–8 [9] 10–11 [12] 13–26 [27] [28–32] |
| Contents: | Signature (Page) Reference | Contents | Signature (Page) Reference | Running Titles |
| A1r (1) | title | |||
| A1v–A16v (2–32) | see Hughes.Whist.1822. |
| Plates: | Frontispiece woodblock: Hand colored woodblock of playing cards. |
| Publisher: | Charles Spencer Johnson |
| Printer: | Charles Knight |
| Price: | 3d. (title) |
| Other Copies: | Neilson |
| Notes: | This is the same setting of type as Hughes.Whist.1822, so I have labeled it with Hughes, rather than Johnson. There are some minor differences. This book lacks the address of Bob Short on page 8 and the colophon on page 32. Charles Spencer Johnson was active in St. Martin's Lane in the late 1840s into the 1850s, so the discrepency in dates is puzzling. |