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Title: | HOYLE ABRIDGED. | [short rule] | A TREATISE | ON THE | GAME OF DRAUGHTS: | OR, | SHORT RULES FOR SHORT MEMORIES, | WITH THE | LAWS OF THE GAME, | AND EXERCISES. | [short rule] | BY BOB SHORT, JUNIOR. | [woodblock] | DERBY: | PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RICHARDSON. |
| Collation: | 10.6 x 6.3: [A]16 [unsigned]; 16 leaves, pp. [1–7] 8–31 [32] |
| Contents: | Signature (Page) Reference | Contents | Signature (Page) Reference | Running Titles |
| A1r–A1v (1–2) | blank | |||
| A2r (3) | title | |||
| A2v (4) | blank | |||
| A3r (5) | ‘DEDICATION. | [short rule] | THIS LITTLE WORK IS HUMBLY DEDI-|CATED TO THE PUBLIC, | BY THEIR VERY OBEDIENT, | HUMBLE SERVANT, | BOB SHORT. | LONG'S HOTEL. | NOV. 4, 1818.’ | |||
| A3v (6) | blank | |||
| A4r–A14r (7–27) | ‘THE | Game of Draughts. | [...]’ | A4v–A14r (8–27) | ‘A TREATISE ON THE | GAME OF DRAUGHTS.’ | |
| A14v–A16r (28–31) | ‘THE GAME | OF | POLISH DRAUGHTS. | [...] | [colophon]’ | A15r (29) | ‘GAME OF DRAUGHTS.’ | |
| A15v–A16r (30–31) | ‘A TREATISE ON THE | GAME OF DRAUGHTS.’ | |||
| A16v (32) | blank |
| Plates: | on A2r(3) woodblock: A couple playing draughts on A6r(11) woodblock: The Draughts Board |
| Printer: | Thomas Richardson |
| Price: | 6d. (advertisement) |
| References: | Rather 125 (with a date of 1827, otherwise unrecorded) |
| Colophon: | ‘Printed by Thomas Richardson, Derby’ |
| Copies Seen in Collections: | O [Jessel g.247]; Copisarow [2 copies] (see Richardson.Games.1818); Levy [1291] (see Richardson.Games.1818) |