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A Descriptive Bibliography of Edmond Hoyle

Copyright © 2014-26 by David Levy

(page updated 2026-06-12)User Guide

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Proprietors’ 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

Prorprietors’ Collections of Works Published Separately

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

Prorprietors’ Collected Editions

• Hoyle’s Games, printed for Thomas Osborne
• Hoyle’s Games Improved, edited by Charles Jones
• Hoyle’s Games Improved and Enlarged, by G. H.

Challengers

• Hoyle’s Games Improved, edited by James Beaufort
• Hoyle’s Games Improved, edited by “Thomas Jones”
• New Hoyle, edited by Charles Pigott
• The New Pocket Hoyle, printed for Wynne and Scholey

Cheap Books

• Epitome of Hoyle, by a Member of the Jockey Club
• The Beauties of Hoyle and Paine, by General Scott
• Hoyle’s Game of Whist
• Hoyle’s Card Games, printed in Bath or Glasgow
• Hoyle Made Familiar, by Robert Hardie (“Eidrah Trebor”)
• The New Pocket Hoyle, printed for Joseph Smith or Thomas Richardson

Cheap Anothologies 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
• An Improved Miniature Edition of Hoyle's Games,, printed by J. Limbird
• Hoyle’s Games. A New and Correct Edition, printed for William Jeffery

Chapbooks

• Short Rules, by Robert Withy (“Bob Short”)
• Short Rules, printed for J. Harris
• Short Rules, printed by J. Freeman
• Short Rules, printed by Thomas Richardson
• Short Rules, printed by John Stacy
• Short Rules, printed for T. and J. Allman
• Short Rules, printed by James Johns
• Short Rules, printed by Shackell and Arrowsmith
• Short Rules, printed for T. Hughes
• Short Rules, printed by Joseph Bailey
• Short Rules, printed by Cowie & Strange for T. North
• Short Rules, printed by John Lofts

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
• Hoyle’s Games, published by Henry F. Anners

Continental Translations

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

Search

• Chronological Listing

• Holdings

• Indices
  • Short Title
  • Short Imprint
  • Games Covered
  • Games Covered (chronological by first appearance)
  • Subjects
  • Subjects (first appearance)
  • Pseudonyms
  • Dedicatees

• Producers
  • Publishers
  • Printers

• References
  • Depaulis
  • ESTC
  • Horr
  • Jessel
  • Lensi
  • Marshall
  • Rather

• Libraries
  • Library Codes and Catalogues

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