| Contents: |
Signature (Page) Reference |
Contents |
Signature (Page) Reference |
Running Titles |
| A1r (i) |
title |
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| A1v (ii) |
‘C. WHITTINGHAM, Printer, | 103, Goswell Street.’ |
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| A2r (iii) |
"The proprietors of Hoyle's Games Improved, ambitious of retaining
that patronage which those who endeavour to serve or amuse the public
generally acquire, have had the whole work carefully revised and enlarged,
together with, as they hope, material corrections throughout; and supposing
that the same might properly be divided into nearly two equal portions, one
calculated for the card table, and most suitable to the ladies; the other
appropriate to the male sex, as containing games that require stronger
exertions, or more intense application; therefore they, the proprietors, now
re-publish, in a convenient size and elegant manner, that part which they
trust will prove most acceptable to their fair country-women, intending soon
to print the remainder in a similar form, so as to give a complete edition
of a book containing the most fashionable games both of skill and
chance." |
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| A2v (iv) |
‘CONTENTS. | [...]’ |
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| B1r–O6v (1–156) |
see Jones.8 |
B1v–O6v (2–156) |
see Jones.8 |
| O6v–O7r (156–157) |
‘[...] | THE GAME OF LOTTERY. | [...]’ |
O6v–O7r (156–157) |
‘LOTTERY.’ |
| O7v–O8v (158–160) |
‘THE GAME OF COMMERCE. | [...]’ |
O7v–O8v (158–160) |
‘COMMERCE.’ |
| O9r–O9v (161–162) |
‘THE GAME OF POPE, or POPE JOAN. | [...]’ |
O9r–O9v (161–162) |
‘POPE, or POPE JOAN.’ |
| O10r–O11r (163–165) |
‘THE GAME OF BRAG. | [...]’ |
O10r–O10v (163–164) |
‘BRAG.’ |
| O11r–O11v (165–166) |
‘[...] | THE GAME OF DOMINO. | [...] | [colophon]’ |
O11r–O11v (165–166) |
‘DOMINO.’ |
| O12r–O12v (167–168) |
‘BOOKS | PRINTED FOR W. LOWNDES. | [...]’ |
O12v (168) |
‘BOOKS PRINTED FOR W. LOWNDES.’ |
| Plates: |
on M4v(128) woodblock: a tapis or cloth covering the Rouge et Noir table |
| Publisher: |
Robert Baldwin I, William Lowndes, Wilkie and Robinson, Scatcherd and Letterman, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Lackington, Allen and Co., William Stewart, B. Crosby and Co., Joseph Mawman |
| Printer: |
Charles Whittingham (Chiswick Press Papers, colophon, Longman Archives) |
| Notices: |
1808-03-09 Hereford Journal: "...Of whom may be had, likewise just published...Hoyle's Games Improved,
and selected as a Companion to the Card Table, consisting of practical
treatises on twenty-two fashionable games; wherein are comprised
calculations for betting upon equal or advantageous terms. Price 3s. sewed,
in a case like an almanack, with gilt edges." |
| Price: |
3s. (advertisement, slip case) |
| References: |
Jessel 927, Rather 94 |
| Colophon: |
‘[oxford rule] | C. WHITTINGHAM, Printer, 103 Goswell Street. | [reverse oxford rule]’ |
| Copies Seen: |
O [Jessel f.607]; TNJ [GV1243.H88 1808]; Levy [0079] |
| Notes: |
The card games from Jones.8, almost entirely from the same setting of type, although here, gathering O is imposed
in twelves. Just as Jones.7-1 appears to have been published before Jones.7, it would appear that this book was published before Jones.8. Provincial advertisements appears as early as 1808-03-09, while the Longman Archive
gives a publication date of 1808-05-24. J. Walker and James Asperne do not appear
on the imprint of this book, but do appear on the imprint of Jones Hoyles beginning
with Jones.8. |
