A Descriptive Bibliography of Edmond Hoyle
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Piquet.D.Wilson.1*
The Polite Gamester, printed for Peter Wilson, first edition, 1752.
| 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. | By EDMOND HOYLE, Gent. | DUBLIN: | Printed for Peter Wilson, in Dame-ſtreet. | M, DCC LII. |
| Collation: | 12o: A–C6 [$½ signed]; 18 leaves, pp. [1–3] 4–33 [34–36] |
| Contents: | Signature (Page) Reference | Contents | Signature (Page) Reference | Running Titles |
| A1r (1) | title | |||
| A1v (2) | blank | |||
| A2r–B6r (3–23) | ‘[double rule] | A | TREATISE | On the GAME of | PIQUET. | [...]’ | A2v–B6r (4–23) | ‘A Treatiſe on Piquet.’ | |
| B6v–C4v (24–32) | ‘[double rule] | SOME | Rules and Observations | FOR | Playing well at CHESS. | [...]’ | C1r–C4v (25–32) | ‘Rules and Obſervations | for playing at CHESS.’ | |
| C5r (33) | ‘LAWS at CHESS. | [...]’ | C5r (33) | ‘for playing at CHESS.’ | |
| C5v (34) | ‘CONTENTS | FOR | PIQUET. | [...]’ | |||
| C6r (35) | ‘CONTENTS | FOR | CHESS. | [...]’ | |||
| C6v (36) | blank |
| Publisher: | Peter Wilson |
| Copies Seen in Collections: | O [Jessel e.642] (ECCO) (see Wilson.B); O [Jessel f.573] (see Wilson.B); Copisarow (see Wilson.A); CSmH [356641] (see Wilson.B); NvLN [GV1241.H86 1752] (see Wilson.C); OCl [789.87H F52D] (see Wilson.C); TNJ [GV1241.H8P 1752a] (see Wilson.B); Levy [1770] (see Wilson.A); Levy [1791] (see Wilson.B) |
| Other Copies in Collections: | Gsu [Special Coll. Anderson] (see Wilson.C) |
| Notes: | This work was not sold seaparetely, but was included in three different versions of the Wilson collection The Polite Gamester. |