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| Title: | A SHORT | TREATISE | On the GAME of | PIQUET. | Directing with Moral Certainty how to | Diſcard any Hand to Advantage, by | ſhewing the Chances of taking in any one, | two, three, four, or five certain Cards. | Computations for thoſe who Bet their | Money at the Game. | Alſo the Laws of the Game. | To which are added, | Some Rules and Obſervations for | playing well at CHESS. | [rule] | The Fourth Edition. | [rule] | By Edmund Hoyle, Gent. | [double rule] | DUBLIN: | Printed for G. and A. Ewing, at the Angel and | Bible in Dame-Street. M,dcc,lii. |
| Collation: | 12o: π2 A–B8/4 C8 [$½ signed]; 22 leaves, pp. [1–5] 6–43 [44] |
| Contents: | Signature (Page) Reference | Contents | Signature (Page) Reference | Running Titles |
| π1r (1) | title | |||
| π1v (2) | blank | |||
| π2r (3) | ‘[double rule] | PIQUET. | [...]’ | |||
| π2v (4) | ‘[double rule] | CHESS. | [...]’ | |||
| A1r–C1v (5–30) | ‘[headpiece] | A | TREATISE | On the GAME of | PIQUET. | [...]’ | A1v–C1v (6–30) | ‘A Treatiſe on Piquet.’ | |
| C2r–C8r (31–43) | ‘[headpiece] | SOME | RULES | AND | OBSERVATIONS | FOR | Playing well at CHESS. | [...]’ | C2v–C8r (32–43) | ‘Rules and Obſervations | for playing at CHESS.’ | |
| C8v (44) | blank |
| Publisher: | George and Alexander Ewing |
| Printer: | Samuel Powell (ornaments) |
| Advertisements: | 1752-02-22 Dublin Journal: “This day is published...price 1s. 1d. ...The Polite Gamester. Containing, short treatises on the games of whist, quadrille, backgammon, piquet and chess, together with an artificial memory...By Edmond Hoyle." |
| Copies Seen in Collections: | O [Jessel f.572] (ECCO) (see Polite.B); 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: | D [393.h3] (see Polite.B); MH-H [SG 3652.152*] (see Polite.B) |