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| Title: | A SHORT | TREATISE | On the Game of | WHIST. | CONTAINING | The LAWS of the GAME: | AND ALSO | Some Rules, whereby a Beginner | may, with due Attention to them, | attain to the Playing it well. | Calculations for thoſe who will Bet | the Odds on any Point of the Score of the | Game then playing and depending. | Cases ſtated, to ſhew what may be effected | by a very good Player in Critical Parts of | the Game. | References to Cases, viz. at the | End of the Rule you are directed how to | find them. | Calculations, directing with moral | Certainty, how to play well any Hand or | Game, by ſhewing the Chances of your | Partner’s having 1, 2, or 3 Certain Cards. | With variety of Caſes added in the Appendix. | [rule] | By EDMUND HOYLE, Gent. | [rule] | THE FIFTH EDITION. | With great Additions to the Laws of the Game, and an Expla-|nation of the Calculations which are neceſſary to be under-|ſtood by thoſe who would play it well, &c. &c. | [rule] | DUBLIN: | Printed for GEORGE EWING at the | Angel and Bible in Dame-ſtreet, 1743. |
| Collation: | 12o: A–F8/4 [$½ (−A2,E3) signed; signing E5 as E3]; 36 leaves, pp. [1–4] 5–24 21–67 [68] [=72] |
| Contents: | Signature (Page) Reference | Contents | Signature (Page) Reference | Running Titles |
| A1r (1) | title | |||
| A1v (2) | blank | |||
| A2r–A2v (3–4) | ‘[reverse oxford rule] | The | CONTENTS. | [...]’ | A2v (4) | ‘CONTENTS.’ | |
| A3r–F4r (5–67) | ‘[row of type orn] | A SHORT | TREATISE | On the Game of | WHIST. | [...]’ | |||
| F4r–F4v (67–68) | publisher's advertisement |
| Catchwords: | C6r(31) CHAP [CHAP.]; D4r(43) Suits, [Suits:] |
| Publisher: | George Ewing |
| Price: | 6½d. (inferred) |
| References: | ESTC N22952, Jessel 786, Marshall s7 no.8 p263 (1889-10-05), Rather 12 |
| Copies Seen in Collections: | O [Jessel f.541(1)] (see Polite.A); NvLN [GV1201.H83 1743] (see Polite.A) |
| Other Copies: | L [D-7913.b.40] (destroyed); NcD [A-32 Pam H867S c.1] |
| Other Copies in Collections: | LU [GV1243.H7] (see Polite.A) |
| Notes: | The type for this book was clearly set from Whist.D.1. The compositor numbered the preliminary pages in this edition, but later copied the pagination of the earlier work in which the prelinaries were unnumbered, hence the irregular pagination. The text is from Whist.3. |