A Descriptive Bibliography of Edmond Hoyle

Copyright © 2014-26 by David Levy

(page updated 2026-03-28)

Separate Works

• A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist
• The Laws of the Game of Whist Designed for Framing
• A Short Treatise on the Game of Backgammon
• An Artificial Memory at the Game of Whist
• A Short Treatise on the Game of Piquet
• A Short Treatise on the Game of Quadrille
• A Short Treatise on the Game of Brag
• The Doctrine of Chances
• An Essay on Chess

Publisher's Collection of Works Published Separately

• Collection, printed for Francis Cogan
• Collection, printed for Thomas Osborne

Collected Editions

• Hoyle's Games, printed for Thomas Osborne
• Hoyle's Games Improved, edited by James Beaufort
• Hoyle's Games Improved, edited by Charles Jones
• Hoyle's Games Improved, edited by "Thomas Jones"
• Short Rules, edited by Robert Withy ("Bob Short")
• New Hoyle, edited by Charles Pigott
• The New Pocket Hoyle, printed for Wynne and Scholey
• Hoyle Made Familiar, by Robert Hardie ("Eidrah Trebor")
• Hoyle's Games Improved and Enlarged, by G. H.

Cheap Books in Boards or Cloth

• Epitome of Hoyle, by a Member of the Jockey Club
• The Beauties of Hoyle and Paine, by General Scott
• Hoyle's Card Games, printed in Bath or Glasgow
• The New Pocket Hoyle, printed for Joseph Smith or Thomas Richardson

Cheap Editions in Wrappers

• Multum in Parvo, printed for Christopher and Jennett
• Companion to the Card Table, printed for William Clarke
• Hoyle's Games in Miniature, printed for John Fairburn
• Hoyle's Improved Miniature Edition, printed for Orlando Hodgson
• Hoyle's Improved Miniature Edition, printed for Dean and Munday
• The Card Games of Hoyle, printed by Thomas Hughes
• Hoyle's Games. A New and Correct Edition, printed for William Jeffery

Chapbooks

• printed for J. Harris
• printed by J. Freeman
• printed by Thomas Richardson
• printed by John Stacy
• printed for T. and J. Allman
• printed by James Johns
• printed by Shackell and Arrowsmith
• printed for T. Hughes
• printed by Joseph Bailey
• printed for T. North, by Cowie & Strange
• printed by J. Limbird
• printed by John Lofts

Miniature Editions

• Hoyle's Game of Whist

Dublin

• Printed for the Ewings or Hoeys
• Printed for John Exshaw
• Printed for Peter Wilson
• Printed by R. M. Butler

America

• Hoyle's Games Improved, edited by James Beaufort
• The Pocket Hoyle, published by David Longworth
• The New Pocket Hoyle, published by Hugh Maxwell
• Hoyle's Games Improved, published by Edward Cotton
• Hoyle's Games Improved, published by George and Robert Waite
• Hoyle's Games, published by John Bioren
• Hoyle's Games Improved, published by George Long
• Hoyle Abridged, by Bob Short
• Hoyle's Improved Edition, various publishers
• Hoyle Made Familiar, printed for W. Mather

Continental Translations

• Dutch
• French
• German
• Italian
• Portuguese
• Russian

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