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| Title: | NEW HOYLE: | OR, | A GENERAL REPOSITORY OF GAMES; | CONTAINING EASY RULES FOR PLAYING IN A | SUPERIOR MANNER, | [nine lines to left of double rule] Loo, | Whist, | Cribbage, | Quadrille, | Piquet, | Quinze, | Reversis, | Vingt-un, | Put, | [nine lines between two double rules] Backgammon, | Draughts, | Billiards, | Cricket, | Tennis, | Goff, | Faro, | Hazard, | Rouge et Noir, | [nine lines to right of double rule] Cassino, | Tennis, | All Fours, | Connexions, | Domino, | Matrimony, | Speculation, | Lottery, | Chess: | With Tables of Odds, calculated for betting equitably and | advantageously; and their Laws as settled at Brookes's, | White's, the Union, and Jockey Clubs; | &c. &c. | [short rule] | By CHARLES PIGOT, Esq. | [short rule] | NEW EDITION, IMPROVED. | [short reverse oxford rule] | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR J. RIDGWAY, 170, OPPOSITE | BOND-STREET, PICCADILLY. | [small rule] | 1805. | [short rule] | {Price, bound in red, 3s. 6d.} |
| Collation: | 18o: π2 A2(A2+1) B–N9 O6(−O6 missing, blank?) P6 [Q]4(−Q4 missing, blank?) [$½ signed]; 127 leaves, pp. [2 ] [i] ii [iii–iv] v–viii, [1] 2–226, 2[1] 2–16 [17–18] |
| Contents: | Signature (Page) Reference | Contents | Signature (Page) Reference | Running Titles |
| π1r | title | |||
| π1v | ‘[two lines to left of brace] Printed by B. McMillan, | Bow-Street, Covent-Garden.’ | |||
| π2r–π2v (i–ii) | ‘GENERAL CONTENTS. | [...]’ | |||
| A1r–O5v (iii–226) | see Pigott.3.1 (1802) | A1r–O5v (iii–226) | see Pigott.3.1 (1802) | |
| P1r–P1v (21–2) | ‘APPENDIX. | [short reverse oxford rule] | The Game of Loo. | [...]’ | P1v (22) | ‘LOO.’ | |
| P2r–P2v (23–4) | ‘The Game of Lottery. | [...]’ | P2r (23) | ‘LOTTERY.’ | |
| P2v–P3r (24–5) | ‘[...] | The Game of Domino, | [...]’ | P2v (24) | ‘DOMINO.’ | |
| P3r–P4v (25–8) | ‘[...] | The Game of Commerce. | [...]’ | P3r–P4r (25–7) | ‘COMMERCE.’ | |
| P4v–P5v (28–10) | ‘[...] | Vingt-un, of the Game of Twenty-one, | [...]’ | P4v–P5r (28–9) | ‘VINGT-UN.’ | |
| P5v–Q2r (210–15) | ‘[...] | The Game of Reversis. | [...]’ | P5v–Q2r (210–15) | ‘REVERSIS.’ | |
| Q2v (216) | ‘The Game of Speculation, | [...] | [colophon]’ | |||
| Q3r–Q3v (217–18) | publisher's advertisements |
| Plates: | on H4r(115) woodblock: ‘[...] | The Draught Table’ |
| Publisher: | James Ridgway |
| Printer: | Thomas Sutton (colophon), Buchanan McMillan (colophon) |
| Advertisements: | 1804-11-22 The Morning Chronicle: "Play well your game, for there the profit lies! This day is published, price 3s. 6d. bound, New Hoyle...by Charles Pigott, Esq...N. B. The public are requested to be particular in their orders for Mr. Pigott's Hoyle." |
| Price: | 3s.6d. bound (advertisement, title) |
| References: | Horr 1024, Rather 88 |
| Colophon: | ‘[two lines to left of brace] Printed by B. McMillan, | Bow-Street, Covent-Garden.’ |
| Copies Seen: | O [Jessel f.617]; OCl [789.87H G5P] |
| Notes: | This is a reissue of Pigott.3.1 (1802) with new π and P gatherings. The original book was printed by Thomas Sutton and the new material by Buchanan McMillan. |