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| Publisher: | James Ridgway |
| Reviews: | 1796-08 The English Review for August 1796: "New Hoyle; or, The General Repository of Games. Second Edition. pp. 242. 12mo. Ridgway. London, 1796. This little pocket companion contains rules and instructions for playing whist, cribbage, piquet, quinze, goff, draughts, faro, hazard, quadrille, cricket, chess, matrimony, rouge et noir, tennis, lansquenet, back-gaamon, &c. &c. ... It is certainly one of the complest collections of games that ever was published. " |
| Price: | 3s. (review) |
| Notes: | With a first edition advertised February 1, 1796 and a "third" on April 22, 1796, one expects to see a second edition between the two. There are no recorded copies of such a book, but one was described in the English Review for August 1796. The "third" edition is a reissue of the first with an added section treating new games (cassino, all four, connections, and put), totalling 276 pages rather than the 238 in the first. It is probable that the the "second" edition was also a reissue of the first. The review indicates it was 242 pages, not noting any games newly included in the "third" edition. Perhaps the extra pages are publisher's advertisements. |