A Descriptive Bibliography of Edmond Hoyle

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Pigott.4.2

New Hoyle, printed for J. Ridgway, fourth London edition, second issue, “new” edition, 1811.

pigott.4.2.jpg 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, | [eight lines to right of double rule] Cassino, | 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 decorative rule] | By CHARLES PIGOT, Esq. | [short decorative rule] | NEW EDITION, IMPROVED. | [short decorative rule] | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR J. RIDGWAY, 170, PICCADILLY, | OPPOSITE BOND-STREET. | [short rule] | 1811. | [short rule] | {Price, bound in red, 4s.}
Collation: 18o: [A]4 B–Y6 Z6(−Z6 missing, blank?) [$½ (+Z4) signed; signing X3 as X]; 135 leaves, pp. [i–v] vi–viii, [1] 2–262 [misprinting 58 as 56]
Contents: Signature (Page) Reference Contents Signature (Page) Reference Running Titles
A1r (i) title
A1v (ii) ‘[short rule] | W. Flint, Printer, Old Bailey, London.’
A2r–Z5v (iii–262) see Pigott.4.1 (1810) A3v–Z5v (vi–262) see Pigott.4.1 (1810)
Publisher: James Ridgway, Henry Delahoy Symonds
Printer: William Flint (colophon)
Price: 4s. bound in red (title)
References: Jessel 1335, Rather 99
Copies Seen: O [Jessel f.618]; NvLN [GV1201.P5 1811]; OCl [789.87H H1P]; Levy [1917]
Other Copies: NcU [GV1201.P5 1811]
Notes: This is the same setting of type as Pigott.4.1 (1810). In fact even the title page appears to be the same setting of type with only the date changed to 1811.

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