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Title: | EASY | RULES OF WHIST, | WITH | Maxims, | AND | THE LAWS OF THE GAME, | DEDICATED TO THE | DUKE OF WELLINGTON, | BY | LIEUT.-GENERAL SCOTT. | [short rule] | “He diverted himself, as usual, with the conversation of his | Friends; and sometimes, in the evening, with a party, at his | favourite Game of WHIST.” Dr Smith's Life of HUME. | [short rule] | Tenth Edition. | [short rule] | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR E. COX AND SON, HIGH STREET, | BOROUGH. | [short rule] | 1815. |
| Collation: | 8o: [A]8 B8 C4 [$¼ signed]; 20 leaves, pp. [i–v] vi [vii–viii], [9] 10–40 |
| Frontispiece: |  |
| Label: | [within a rectangular border] SCOTT'S | GAME OF WHIST. | [short rule] | Price 2s. 6d. |
| Half Title: | [double rule] | EASY RULES OF WHIST, | &c. &c. | [double rule] |
| Contents: | Signature (Page) Reference | Contents | Signature (Page) Reference | Running Titles |
| A1r (i) | half title | |||
| A1v (ii) | blank | |||
| A2r (iii) | title | |||
| A2v (iv) | ‘[short rule] | Plummer and Brewis, Printers, | Love-Lane, Eastcheap.’ | |||
| A3r–A3v (v–vi) | ‘TO | HIS GRACE | FIELD MARSHALL | THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, K. B. | [...]’ | |||
| A4r (vii) | ‘CONTENTS. | [...]’ | |||
| A4v (viii) | blank | |||
| A5r–B6v (9–28) | ‘THE RULES OF WHIST. | [...]’ | |||
| B6v–C3r (28–37) | ‘[...] | THE LAWS OF WHIST. | [...]’ | |||
| C3v–C4v (38–40) | ‘ORIGIN AND DESIGN | OF | CARD-PLAYING. | [...] | [colophon]’ |
| Plates: | Frontispiece hand-colored engraving: Portrait of the author, captioned "Lieut. General Scott." with note "London Publiſhed Oct.r 20th, 1815, by E. Cox & Son. 39 High Street, Southwark." |
| Publisher: | E. Cox and Son |
| Printer: | Plummer and Brewis (colophon) |
| Price: | 2s.6d. (label) |
| References: | Horr 1153 |
| Colophon: | ‘Plummer and Brewis, Printers, | Love-Lane, Eastcheap.’ |
| Copies Seen: | Levy [1708] |
| Notes: | With no recorded institutional copies, how did Horr know of this book to include it in his bibliography? It is also noted in Courtney, English Whist and Whist Players, London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1894, page 370. |