A Descriptive Bibliography of Edmond Hoyle

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Jockey.2

Every Man a Good Card Player, printed at the Logographic Press for J. Wallis, a partial resetting from the first London edition of The Epitome of Hoyle, 1785.

Title: Every Man a good Card Player, | OR, | MAXIMS | FOR | PLAYING | The following Games: | [three lines to left of rule] WHIST, | QUADRILLE, | PIQUET, | [three lines to right of rule] LANSQUENET, | AND | QUINZE. | Compriſing the Laws and Rules of thoſe Games, | as ſettled at Brookes's, White's, &c. &c. | [rule] | BY A MEMBER OF THE JOCKEY CLUB. | [rule] | [oxford rule] | LONDON: | PRINTED AT THE | LOGOGRAPHIC PRESS, | For J. Wallis, No. 16, Ludgate-Street; Lewis | Bull, Bookſeller, Bath; and J. Binns, Leeds. | MDCCLXXXV.
Collation: 12o: A2 B–D6 E4 [$1–3 (−A2) signed]; 24 leaves, pp. [i–iii] iv, 5–48 [misprinting 41 as 4]
Label: [in an oval] | Every Man | ——— a ——— | GOOD CARD PLAYER | ——— or ——— | RULES & MAXIMS | for Playing the Games of | Whist, Quadrille, Picquet, | Lansquenet, and Quinze. | By a Member of the Jockey Club. | [rule] | Printed for J. WALLIS | No16 Ludgate Street London | L. BULL Bath | and J. BINNS Leeds.
Contents: Signature (Page) Reference Contents Signature (Page) Reference Running Titles
A1r (i) title
A1v (ii) blank
A2r–A2v (iii–iv) ‘TO THE | READER | [...]’
B1r–D1v (5–30) ‘MAXIMS | FOR PLAYING THE | GAME OF WHIST. | [...]’ B1v–D1v (6–30) ‘THE GAME OF WHIST.’
D2r–D6v (31–40) ‘THE GAME OF QUADRILLE. | [...]’ D2v–D6v (32–40) ‘THE GAME OF QUADRILLE.’
D6v–E3v (40–46) ‘[...] | THE GAME OF PIQUET. | [...]’ E1r–E3v (41–46) ‘THE GAME OF PIQUET.’
E3v–E4r (46–47) ‘[...] | THE GAME OF LANSQUENET. | [...]’ E4r (47) ‘THE GAME OF LANSQUENET.’
E4v (48) ‘THE GAME OF QUINZE. | [...]’ E4v (48) ‘THE GAME OF QUINZE.’
Catchwords: A2v(iv) THE [MAXIMS]; B1v(6) By [If]
Press Figures: B3v(i):1; C1v(i):3; D6v(o):3; E1v(i):3
Publisher: John Wallis, Lewis Bull, John Binns
Printer: Logographic Press
Notices: 1788-01-01 The Times
Price: 1s. (advertisement)
References: ESTC N31172
Copies Seen: L [C.191.a.2]; O [Jessel f.200]
Other Copies: CSmH [287070]; NIC [GV1277.E9 tiny]
Notes: A near line-for-line resetting of the card games only from Jockey.1. The catchword anomoly on B1v(6) ("By" rather than "If") was clearly caused by setting type from Jockey.1, where the corresponding text on K3r(41) correctly has the catchword "By". It is unclear how Wallis came to acquire the rights from Etherington, although perhaps it relates to Ethrington's 1783 bankruptcy.

Bound in marbled wrappers and issued in a slip case with an engraved label, an image of which is available on the Cornell University Library web site.

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