A Descriptive Bibliography of Edmond Hoyle

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Jones.6-1

Directions for Breeding Game Cocks, printed by M. Ritchie for R. Baldwin et al, extracted from sixth London edition, 1800.

Title: DIRECTIONS | FOR | Breeding | GAME-COCKS | INCLUDING THE | METHODS OF TREATING THEM | From the Time they are Hatched, till fit to fight: | Beſides Articles for a Match; Key to a Match Bill; Rules and | Orders as abided by at the Cock-Pit Royal | WITH | CALCULATIONS FOR BETTING. | [oxford rule] | A NEW EDITION. | [reverse oxford rule] | LONDON: | Printed by M. Ritchie, Middle Street, Cloth Fair, | For R. Baldwin, T. Payne, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. | Scatcherd, Longman and Rees, E. Newbery, W. Stewart, | J. Lee, T. Hurst, and J. Mawman. | [short rule] | 1800. | [short rule]
Collation: 12o: [A]1 B12 [C]1 [$5 signed]; 14 leaves, pp. [1–5] 6–28
Half Title: DIRECTIONS | FOR | BREEDING GAME COCKS. | [reverse oxford rule] | SECOND EDITION. | [oxford rule]
Contents: Signature (Page) Reference Contents Signature (Page) Reference Running Titles
A1r (1) half title
A1v (2) engraved copperplate
B1r (3) title
B1v (4) blank
B2r–C1v (5–28) ‘[oxford rule] | TREATISE ON GAME-COCKS. | [...]’ B2v–B6v (6–14) ‘TREATISE ON GAME COCKS.’
on B6r (13) ‘ORDERS, &C. FOR COCKING.’
B7r–B8r (15–17) ‘ORDERS, &C. FOR COCKING.’
on B7v (16) ‘CALCULATIONS FOR COCKING.’
B8v–B9r (18–19) ‘KEY TO A MATCH BILL.’
B9v–B11v (20–24) ‘CALCULATIONS FOR COCKING.’
on B9v (20) ‘ARTICLES FOR A COCK MATCH.’
on C1v (28) ‘[...] | EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. | [...] | [colophon]’
Plates: on A1v(2) copperplate: engraving of two cocks fighting
Publisher: Robert Baldwin I, Thomas Payne, William Lowndes, George Wilkie, James Scatcherd, Longman and Rees, Elizabeth Newbery, William Stewart, John Lee, Thomas Hurst, Joseph Mawman
Printer: Millar Ritchie (colophon, Longman Archives)
Advertisements: 1802-01-21 St. James's Chronicle or the British Evening Post: Lately published, in 12mo. price 4s. bound, an enlarged edition of Jones's Hoyle's Games Improved...☞The Essay on Game-Cocks, separate, price 6d.
Price: 6d. (advertisement)
References: ESTC T493573
Colophon: ‘RITCHIE, PRINTER, CLOTH FAIR.'
Copies Seen: L [RB.23.a.35281]
Notes: A partial reprint of ESTC T33013, Directions for Breeding Game Cocks, printed by the Etheringtons for J. MacGowan, 1780.

The running titles are out of synch with the text, likely becuase the type has been rearranged from the last section of Jones.6.

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