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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 Ex-|planation of the Calculations which are neceſſary to be un-|derſtood by thoſe who would play it well, &c. &c. | [rule] | DUBLIN: | Printed for G. and A. EWING at the | Angel and Bible in Dame-ſtreet, 1745. |
| Collation: | 12o: A–D8/4 E8 F4(−F4 missing, blank?) [$½ signed]; 35 leaves, pp. [4 ] 1–66 |
| Contents: | Signature (Page) Reference | Contents | Signature (Page) Reference | Running Titles |
| A1r | title | |||
| A1v | blank | |||
| A2r–A2v | ‘[double rule] | THE | CONTENTS. | [...]’ | A2v | ‘CONTENTS.’ | |
| A3r–F3v (1–66) | ‘[row of type orn] | A SHORT | TREATISE | On the Game of | WHIST. | [...]’ |
| Catchwords: | C2r(23) Par- [CHAP.]; E5r(53) The [VI. The]; E6r(55) In [II. In] |
| Publisher: | George and Alexander Ewing |
| Advertisements: | 1745 Quadrille.D.1: price 6½d., all bound together and lettered. Price a British half crown. |
| Price: | 6½d. (advertisement) |
| References: | ESTC T88042, Jessel 787, Marshall s7 no.8 p264 (1889-10-05) |
| Copies Seen: | Dt [OLS X-2-128 no.6] |
| Copies Seen in Collections: | L [7917 de.73] (see Polite.A); O [Jessel f.570(1)] (see Polite.A); O [Jessel f.571(1)] (see Polite.A); OCl [789.87H F45D] (see Polite.A); Levy [1609] (see Polite.A) |
| Other Copies: | CtY-BR [NLp80 745H] |
| Other Copies in Collections: | C [Hib.7.745.29] (see Polite.A); CaOTP [795 H598] (see Polite.A); ICD [SPC. 795 H868P] (see Polite.A); WaS [R795 H852P] (see Polite.A); AuNU [RB 4645.44] (see Polite.A) |