A Descriptive Bibliography of Edmond Hoyle

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Memory.D.2*

An Artificial Memory at the Game of Whist, printed for George and Alexander Ewing, second Dublin edition, 1751.

Title: AN | Artificial Memory. | OR, AN | EASY METHOD | OF | Aſſiſting the Memory of thoſe | that play at the Game of Whist. | To which are added, | Several Cases not hitherto Publiſh'd. | [rule] | By Edmund Hoyle, Gent. | [double rule] | DUBLIN: | Printed for George and Alexander Ewing | at the Angel and Bible in Dame-ſtreet. 1751.
Collation: 12o: A6 [$½ signed]; 6 leaves, pp. [1–2] 3–12
Contents: Signature (Page) Reference Contents Signature (Page) Reference Running Titles
A1r (1) title
A1v (2) blank
A2r–A6v (3–12) ‘[double rule] | AN | Artificial Memory, | OR, | An eaſy Method of aſſiſting the Memory | of thoſe that play at the Game of | Whist. | [...]’ A2v–A6r (4–11) ‘An Artificial | MEMORY.’
A6v (12) ‘An Artificial, &c.’
Publisher: George and Alexander Ewing
References: ESTC N12394
Copies Seen in Collections: D [393.h3] (see Polite.B); O [Jessel f.572] (see Polite.B); OCl [789.87H F45D] (see Polite.A); TNJ [GV1241.H8P 1752b c.1] (see Polite.B); TNJ [GV1241.H8P 1752b c.2] (see Polite.B); TxU [Ak.H852.B752p] (see Polite.B)
Other Copies in Collections: MH-H [SG 3652.152*] (ECCO) (see Polite.B)
Notes: It is unlikely that this book was ever issued without Whist.D.4 and copies survive only in various compilations of The Polite Gamester. Quadrille.D.2* advertises Memory.D.2* as a separate publication for 3d., but that advertisement is almost certainly inaccurate.

The OCl copy is particularly unusual in that it contains all the parts of the 1745 Polite Gamester but with this 1751 edition of Memory and the 1751 Exshaw edition of the treatise on Brag.

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