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Title: | HOYLE ABRIDGED. | [short rule] | SHORT RULES | FOR | Short Memories | AT THE | GAME OF WHIST, | WITH THE | LAWS OF THE GAME. | Adapted either for the Head or Pocket. | BY BOB SHORT. | [short rule] | A NEW EDITION, | REVISED AND CORRECTED THROUGHOUT, | WITH THE LAST NEW RULES AS ESTA-|BLISHED AT BATH AND LONDON. | [short rule] | Printed for the Benefit of Families, to | prevent Scolding. | [printer's device] | LONDON: | PUBLISHED BY W. WRIGHT, | 46, FLEET-STREET. | [short rule] | 1822. |
| Collation: | 10.9 x 6.1: A12 [$½ (−A2,3,4) signed]; 12 leaves, pp. [1–5] 6–8 [9–24] |
| Contents: | Signature (Page) Reference | Contents | Signature (Page) Reference | Running Titles |
| A1r (1) | title | |||
| A1v (2) | ‘LONDON: | PRINTED BY SHACKELL AND ARROWSMITH, | JOHNSON'S-COURT, FLEET-STREET.’ | |||
| A2r (3) | ‘THE PRESENT IMRPROVED AND | ENLARGED EDITION OF THIS LITTLE | WORK, IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDI-|CATED TO THE PUBLIC, | BY THEIR | VERY OBLIGED, OBEDIENT, | AND HUMBLE SERVANT, | BOB SHORT, JUN. | LONG'S HOTEL, | MAY, 1821.’ | |||
| A2v (4) | ‘TO THE PUBLIC. | [...] | BOB SHORT.’ | |||
| A3r–A4v (5–8) | ‘DEDICATION. | [short rule] | TO THE FOUR KINGS. | [...] | Your devoted Slave, | BOB SHORT. | Baker's Coffee-House, | Exchange-Alley, | Jan. 1, 1793.’ | |||
| A5r–A12v (9–24) | ‘THE | GAME OF WHIST. | [...] | [colophon]’ |
| Publisher: | William Wright |
| Printer: | Shackell and Arrowsmith |
| References: | Jessel 1710 (with an erroneous date of 1824. See his ambigous corrections in Jessel d.138) |
| Colophon: | ‘LONDON: | Shackell and Arrowsmith, Johnson's Court.’ |
| Copies Seen: | Levy [1620] |
| Other Copies: | MRu [R138434] |