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Title: | HOYLE ABRIDGED. | [short rule] | A TREATISE | ON | BACK-GAMMON; | OR, | SHORT RULES FOR SHORT MEMORIES; | WITH THE | LAWS OF THE GAME: | ADAPTED EITHER FOR THE HEAD OR | POCKET. | [short rule] | BY BOB SHORT, JUN. | [woodblock] | DERBY: | PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RICHARDSON |
| Collation: | 10.6 x 6.3: [A]16 [unsigned]; 16 leaves, pp. [1–5] 6 [7] 8–30 [31–32] |
| Wrapper: |  |
[within a rectangular border] Hoyle Abridged | [short rule] | A | TREATISE ON BACK-GAMMON; | OR, | SHORT RULES FOR SHORT MEMORIES; | WITH THE | LAWS OF THE GAME: | ADAPTED EITHER FOR THE HEAD OR POCKET. | [short rule] | BY BOB SHORT, JUN. | [woodblock] | LONDON: | RICHARDSON AND SON, 172, FLEET STREET: | 9, CAEL STREET, DUBLIN, AND DERBY. |
| Contents: | Signature (Page) Reference | Contents | Signature (Page) Reference | Running Titles |
| A1r (1) | pasted to wrapper | |||
| A1v (2) | blank | |||
| A2r (3) | title | |||
| A2v (4) | blank | |||
| A3r–A3v (5–6) | ‘DEDICATION. | TO THE PUBLIC. | [...] | BOB SHORT, Jun. | Long's Hotel, Nov. 4, 1818.’ | A3v (6) | ‘DEDICATION.’ | |
| A4r–A15v (7–30) | ‘A TREATISE | ON | BACK-GAMMON. | [...] | [colophon]’ | A4v–A15r (8–29) | ‘A TREATISE | ON BACK-GAMMON.’ | |
| A15v (30) | ‘A TREATISE, &c.’ | |||
| A16r (31) | blank | |||
| A16v (32) | pasted to wrapper |
| Plates: | on A2r(3) woodblock: A couple playing backgammon |
| Printer: | Thomas Richardson |
| Price: | 6d. (wrapper) |
| Colophon: | ‘Printed by Thomas Richardson, Derby’ |
| Copies Seen: | O [Vet. A6 e.2273]; Levy [1583] (10.2 x 6.6) |
| Copies Seen in Collections: | O [Jessel g.247]; Copisarow [2 copies] (see Richardson.Games.1818); Levy [1291] (see Richardson.Games.1818) |
| Notes: | The rear wrapper advertise's Hoyle's Games Abridged, in four parts, 6d. each: Rules for the Game of Chess, Rules for the Game of Whist, A Treatise on Back-gammon, and A Treatise on the Game of Draughts.The Oxford copy is the same setting of type, but the wrapper and imprint read "published by Thomas Richardson; And by Hurst, Chance, and Co., London." |