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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 Points | 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 Edmond Hoyle, Gent. | [rule] | The Thirteenth Edition with great Additions | To the Laws of the Game, and an Explanation of the Calculations | which are neceſſary to be underſtood by thoſe who would play | it well. | And alſo, | A Dictionary for Whist, which reſolves almoſt all | the critical Caſes that may happen at the Game. | To which is added, | An ARTIFICIAL MEMORY: | Or, an eaſy Method of aſſiſting the Memory of thoſe | that play at the GAME of WHIST. | And ſeveral Cases, not hitherto publiſhed. | To this Edition are alſo added, | A whole Chapter of Thirteen new Caſes, never pub-|liſh'd before. | [double rule] | DUBLIN: | Printed for G. and A. Ewing, at the Angel and Bible | in Dame ſtreet. M,DCC,LII. |
| Collation: | 12o: [A]2 B–E8/4 F4, 2A6 [$½ signed; signing gathering D as C, E as D]; 36 leaves, pp. [4 ] [1] 2–56, 2[1–2] 3–12 |
| Contents: | Signature (Page) Reference | Contents | Signature (Page) Reference | Running Titles |
| A1r | title | |||
| A1v | blank | |||
| A2r–A2v | ‘[double rule] | The | CONTENTS. | WHIST. | [...]’ | A2v | ‘The CONTENTS.’ | |
| B1r–F4v (1–56) | ‘[double rule] | A SHORT | TREATISE | On the GAME of | WHIST. | [...]’ | B1v–F4r (2–55) | ‘A ſhort Treatise on | the Game of Whist.’ | |
| F4v (56) | ‘A ſhort Treatise on, &c.’ | |||
| 2A1r–A6v (21–12) | see Memory.D.2* | 2A2v–A6v (24–12) | see Memory.D.2* |
| Catchwords: | B5r(9) XVI. [XVII.]; C3v(22) III. [IV.] |
| Publisher: | George and Alexander Ewing |
| Printer: | Richard Reilly (ornaments) |
| Advertisements: | 1752-02-22 The Dublin Journal: This day is published by G. and A. Ewing...with the addition of a dictionary of whist; which resolves almost all the critical cases that may happen at the game; also a whole chapter of thirteen new cases, never before published. The Polite Gamester. Containing short treatises on the games of whist, quadrille, backgammon, piquet and chess, together with an artificial memory, or an easy method of assisting the memory of those that play at the game of whist. By Edmond Hoyle, Gent. N. B. This thirteenth edition of the game of whist, with the above additions, not in any other edition printed in this kingdom, may be had separate, price 4d. Be careful to ask for the edition printed for G. and A. Ewing. |
| Price: | 4d. (advertisement) |
| References: | ESTC N12394 (Memory only), Rather 37 |
| Copies Seen in Collections: | D [393.h3] (see Polite.B); O [Jessel f.572] (see Polite.B); TNJ [GV1241.H8P 1752b c.1] (see Polite.B); TNJ [GV1241.H8P 1752b c.2] (see Polite.B); TxU [Ak.H852.B752p] (see Polite.B) |
| Other Copies in Collections: | MH-H [SG 3652.152*] (see Polite.B) |
| Notes: | It appears that Whist.D.4 was always issued with Memory.D.2* and that Memory.D.2* was never issued on its own. Once indiciation is the advertisement noted above. Second is that chapter XV has only a single line, “Contained in the Artificial Memory,” suggesting that the two were issued together. Indeed the only chapter in Memory is Chapter XV. No separate copies of Whist.D.4 survive outside of editions of The Polite Gamester.This book is advertised separately for 6½d. in Quadrille.D.2*, but that advertisement is almost certainly inaccurate.There are two other catchword oddities. On B6r(11) the catchword “XXXI.” has the period slipped up to the top of the line. Similarly on C4r(23) the “d” in the catchword “and” has dropped down below the line. |