A Descriptive Bibliography of Edmond Hoyle
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Hoyle's Games Improved, printed for R. Baldwin et al, fifth London edition, 1796.
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Title: | HOYLE’s | GAMES | IMPROVED | Being Practical Treatises on | [10 lines to left of double rule] WHIST | QUADRILLE | PIQUET | CHESS | BACK-GAMMON | DRAUGHTS | CRICKET | TENNIS | QUINZE | HAZARD | [ten lines to right of double rule] LANSQUENET | BILLIARDS | FARO | ROUGE & NOIR | CRIBBAGE | MATRIMONY | CASSINO | GOFF OR GOLF | AND | CONNEXIONS | In which are contained | The Method of Betting at those Games | upon equal or advantageous Terms. | [rule] | Reviſed and Corrected by CHARLES JONES, Eſq. | A NEW EDITION ENLARGED. | [oxford rule] | LONDON: | Printed for R. Baldwin, B. Law, C. Dilly, | T. Payne, W. Lowndes, James Scatcherd, | E. Newbery, S. Bladon, G. and T. Wilkie, | W. Miller and W. Stewart. | [short rule] | 1796 | Price 3s 6d Bound |
| Collation: | 12o: A4 B–N12 O8 [$½ signed; signing B5 as A5, B6 as A6, I4 as H4]; 156 leaves, pp. [i–iii] iv–v [vi] vii–viii, [1] 2–284 [285] [286–304] [misprinting 24 as 4] |
| Contents: | Signature (Page) Reference | Contents | Signature (Page) Reference | Running Titles |
| A1r (i) | title | |||
| A1v (ii) | blank | |||
| A2r–A4v (iii–viii) | ‘CONTENTS | [...]’ | A2v–A4v (iv–viii) | ‘CONTENTS.’ | |
| B1r–B1v (1–2) | ‘[short oxford rule] | THE | GAME OF WHIST. | [...]’ | |||
| B1v–B2r (2–3) | ‘[...] | Twenty-four Short Rules for Learners. | [...]’ | |||
| B2r (3) | ‘[...] | Methods of Scoring at Whist. | [...]’ | |||
| B2v–D10r (4–67) | ‘Mr. HOYLE'S | GAME AT WHIST. | [...]’ | B3r–C12v (5–48) | ‘The Game of WHIST.’ | |
| D1r–D2v (49–52) | ‘The Laws of WHIST.’ | |||
| D3r–D9v (53–66) | ‘The Game of WHIST.’ | |||
| D10r–E5v (67–82) | ‘[...] | Mr. PAYNE's Maxims for WHIST. | [...]’ | D10r–E5v (67–82) | ‘Maxims for WHIST.’ | |
| E5v–F3v (82–102) | ‘[...] | Mr. HOYLE's | GAME OF QUADRILLE. | [...]’ | E6r–E12v (83–96) | ‘The Game of QUADRILLE.’ | |
| F1r–F2r (97–99) | ‘The Laws of QUADRILLE.’ | |||
| on F1v (98) | ‘The Laws of WHIST.’ | |||
| F2v–F3v (100–102) | ‘Terms of QUADRILLE.’ | |||
| F4r–F8r (103–111) | ‘THE | GAME OF PIQUET | [...]’ | F4r–F8r (103–111) | ‘The Game of PIQUET.’ | |
| F8v–G8v (112–136) | ‘[...] | [short rule] | Mr. HOYLE's | GAME OF PIQUET. | [...]’ | F8v–G7r (112–133) | ‘Rules for the Game of PIQUET.’ | |
| G7v–G8v (134–136) | ‘Laws for the Game of PIQUET.’ | |||
| G9r–G10r (137–139) | ‘The GAME OE CHESS. | [...]’ | G9r–G10r (137–139) | ‘The Game of CHESS.’ | |
| G10v–H3v (140–150) | ‘[...] | RULES and OBSERVATIONS for CHESS. | By Mr. HOYLE. | [...]’ | G10v–H3r (140–149) | ‘Rules for CHESS.’ | |
| on H1r–H1v (145–146) | ‘The Game of CHESS.’ | |||
| H3v (150) | ‘Laws for CHESS.’ | |||
| H4r (151) | ‘THE | GAME OF BACK-GAMMON. | [...]’ | |||
| H4v–I6r (152–179) | ‘TREATISE OF BACK-GAMMON. | By Mr. HOYLE. | [...]’ | H4r–I6r (151–179) | ‘The Game of BACK-GAMMON.’ | |
| I6v–K11v (180–214) | ‘[short rule] | Mr. PAYNE's | GAME OF DRAUGHTS. | [...]’ | I7r–K11v (181–214) | ‘The Game of DRAUGHTS.’ | |
| K12r–L1v (215–218) | ‘[short rule] | The LAWS OF CRICKET. | [...]’ | K12v (216) | ‘The Laws of CRICKET.’ | |
| L1r–L1v (217–218) | ‘The Game of CRICKET.’ | |||
| L1v–L4r (218–223) | ‘[...] | The GAME OF TENNIS. | [...]’ | L2r–L4r (219–223) | ‘The Game of TENNIS.’ | |
| L4v–L5r (224–225) | ‘[...] | The Game of QUINZE. | [...]’ | |||
| L5r–L7r (225–229) | ‘The | GAME OF HAZARD. | [...]’ | L5r–L7r (225–229) | ‘The Game of HAZARD.’ | |
| L7v–L8r (230–231) | ‘THE | GAME OF LANSQUENET. | [...]’ | L8r (231) | ‘The Game of LANSQUENET.’ | |
| L8v–N6v (232–276) | ‘Mr. DEW's Treatise | ON | BILLIARDS*; | [...] | * This Treatiſe may be had ſeparate, Price 1s.’ | L9r–L12v (233–240) | ‘The Game of BILLIARDS. | Rules for the White Winning Game.’ | |
| M1r (241) | ‘The Game of BILLIARDS.’ | |||
| M1v (242) | ‘Rules for the White Losing Game.’ | |||
| M2r–M6r (243–251) | ‘The Game of BILLIARDS. | Carambole Winning Game.’ | |||
| M6v–M7r (252–253) | ‘The Game of BILLIARDS. | Carambole Losing Game.’ | |||
| M7v–M12v (254–264) | ‘Fortification Billiards.’ | |||
| N1v–N6r (266–275) | ‘Odds at Billiards.’ | |||
| N6v–N10v (276–284) | ‘[...] | THE GAME OF FARO. | [...]’ | N6v–N10v (276–284) | ‘The Game of FARO.’ | |
| N11r–N12v (285–288) | ‘THE | GAME OF ROUGE ET NOIR | [...]’ | N11v–N12r (286–287) | ‘The Game of ROUGE et NOIR.’ | |
| N12v–O4v (288–296) | ‘[...] | THE | GAME OF CRIBBAGE. | [...]’ | N12v–O4v (288–296) | ‘The Game of CRIBBAGE.’ | |
| on O3r (293) | ‘The Game of BILLIARDS.’ | |||
| O5r–O5v (297–298) | ‘The GAME OF MATRIMONY. | [...]’ | O5r (297) | ‘The Game of MATRIMONY.’ | |
| O5v–O6v (298–300) | ‘[...] | The GAME OF CASSINO. | [...]’ | O5v–O6v (298–300) | ‘The Game of CASSINO.’ | |
| O7r–O8r (301–303) | ‘THE | GAME OF GOFF, or GOLF. | [...]’ | O7r–O7v (301–302) | ‘The Game of GOFF.’ | |
| O8r–O8v (303–304) | ‘[...] | The GAME OF CONNEXIONS. | [...]’ | O8r–O8v (303–304) | ‘The Game of CONNEXIONS.’ | |
| on O8v (304) | ‘[...] | FINIS. | [inverted] ⁂ The Binder is to put the Plate after Page 254. | ☞ This Work being printed on Paper marked | agreeable to the Act, the Importer thereof | will be entitled to the Drawback.’ |
| Plates: | on I7r(181) woodblock: ‘[...] | THE | DRAUGHT TABLE. | [...]’ after M7v(254) copperplate: bifolium with engravings Plan of Fortification Billiards and Perspective View of Fortification Billiards. on N11r(285) woodblock: a tapis or cloth covering the Rouge et Noir table |
| Catchwords: | B6v(12) ner, [I. put]; B12r(23) the [he]; L3v(222) When [Wen]; L4r(223) THE [The]; O5v(298) A [At] |
| Publisher: | Robert Baldwin I, Bedwell Law, Charles Dilly, Thomas Payne, William Lowndes, James Scatcherd, Elizabeth Newbery, Samuel Bladon, G. and T. Wilkie, W. Miller, William Stewart |
| Printer: | Millar Ritchie (Longman Archives) |
| Notices: | 1796-03-05 St. James's Chronicle or the British Evening Post: FASHIONABLE GAME of FARO. This day were published, in one volume, twelves, price 3s. 6d. bound in red leather, a new, enlarged, and corrected edition of Charle's Jones Hoyle's Games Improved...N. B. Ladies and gentlemean wishing to purchase the above-mentioned work, are requested to give particular directions for Charles Jones's Hoyle's Games Improved, lest any spurious or inferior edition should be offered to them. |
| Price: | 3s.6d. (advertisement, title) |
| References: | ESTC T87523, Horr 737, Jessel 920, Rather 77 |
| Copies Seen: | BFl [I.795/HOYL (b1124834)]; L [7913.aa.58] (ECCO); O [Jessel f.598]; Copisarow; CSt [TAN-0409]; NvLN [GV1241.H69 1796]; OCl [789.8187 F96H]; OCl [789.87H F96J]; TNJ [GV1227.J7 1796 c.1]; TNJ [GV1227.J7 1796 c.2]; Levy [1790] |
| Other Copies: | AWn [GV1201.H86]; BMu [GV1201]; NT [BELL]; NT [TAT]; AMu [OTM: OK 89-19]; HAG [KW 363 D 30] (Google); ICR [Fiskesafn 795 Hoy]; LT [DAM 197]; LT [Wb 811]; CaOHM [B290]; CaOTP [794 H59 1796]; LU [GV1243.H85 1796 Carr]; N [793 H86b]; NjP [42845.479.13]; OAU [GV1241.H85 1796x]; OC [795.1 H86.2] |
| Notes: | In some copies page 293 is misprinted as 294. |