Index to the blog Edmond Hoyle, Gent.

Edmond Hoyle, Gent. is my blog with bibliographical and other musings about the writings of Edmond Hoyle and other gaming literature. I have written the following essays:

Anniversary essays

• "Anniversary!", June 22, 2012.
• "Second Anniversary: Continuities and Disruptions", June 22, 2013.

Gaming Literature before Hoyle

• "Chess, Hoyle, and a Bibliographer's Speculation", August 4, 2011.
• "The Predecessors of Hoyle", August 15, 2011.
• "The Compleat Gamester", January 28, 2013.

The Literature of Edmond Hoyle

• Overview
  • "A Descriptive Bibliography of Edmond Hoyle", November 7, 2014.
  • "Pirates, Autographs, and a Bankruptcy", June 22, 2011.
  • "The Hoyle Copyright in Hoyle's lifetime", April 16, 2012.
  • "The Hoyle Copyright in Hoyle's Lifetime (revisited)", November 8, 2013.
  • "The Mystery of the Hoyle Copyright", April 26, 2012.
  • "More on the Hoyle Copyright", April 30, 2012.
  • "Researching Copyright", July 11, 2013.
  • "Changes in the Text of Whist", February 6, 2012.

• Published by the author
  • "A Discovery at the Morgan Library", June 29, 2011.

• Published by Francis Cogan
  • "Bibliography of the Cogan Hoyles", September 8, 2011.
  • "An Artificial Memory for Whist", June 22, 2011.
  • "Were there Cogan collections of Hoyle?", October 6, 2011.
  • "Who Made These Marks?", June 22, 2017.

• The Piracies
  • "The 'Webster' Piracy: Collation", January 2, 2013.
  • "The First Piracy. Part 1. Overview and Structure", April 1, 2020.
  • "The First Piracy. Part 2. Variants", April 3, 2020.
  • "The First Piracy. Part 3: Variants in Gathering A", April 6, 2020.
  • "The First Piracy. Part 4. Analysis", April 8, 2020.
  • "The First Piracy. Part 5. Bibliographical Concerns", April 14, 2020.

• Published by Thomas Osborne (and John Jolliffe)
  • "November 9, 1745: The First Osborne Hoyles", September 12, 2011.
  • "Hoyles at the Clark", May 6, 2013.
  • "Hoyle's 'sixth' edition and progressive ornament damage ", July 30, 2012.
  • "Every Cancel Tells a Story, Don't It? (part 3)", July 15, 2011.
  • "The Osborne Collections of Hoyle (1745-7)", September 19, 2011.
  • "The (missing) Laws of Whist Designed for Framing", July 5, 2011.
  • "An Insomniac's Reward", October 1, 2012.
  • "Mr. Hoyle's Treatises (1748)", October 10, 2011.
  • "Reissues of Mr. Hoyle's Treatises (1748-1755);, October 16, 2011.
  • "A Short Treatise on the Game of Brag (1751)", November 11, 2011.
  • "The Doctrine of Chances (1754)", November 14, 2011.
  • "The Yorkshire Hoyles and the Doctrine of Chances", June 16, 2014.
  • "The 'Twelfth' Edition", July 2, 2012.
  • "Other 'Twelfth' Editions", July 9, 2012.
  • "A Tale of Two Advertisements", May 6, 2014.
  • "More on the 'twelfth' edition", July 16, 2012.
  • "A final look at the 'twelfth' edition ", July 23, 2012.
  • "Every Cancel Tells a Story, Don't It? (part 2)", July 12, 2011.

• Hoyle after the end of perpetual copyright
  • "When did Hoyle come off copyright?", July 19, 2011.

  • Beaufort
    • "Hoyle in the Public Domain (1775) ", July 21, 2011.

  • Covent Garden Magazine
    • "The Covent-Garden Magazine", August 18, 2011.
    • "More on The Covent Garden Magazine", June 4, 2013.

  • Later Piracies
    • "The 'Seventeenth' Edition ", January 31, 2012.
    • "Hoyle in the Public Domain, Yet Pirates Persist", July 25, 2011.

  • Charles Jones
    • "The most important Hoyle after Hoyle", July 28, 2011.
    • "More from the database: another bad seller ", November 5, 2013.
    • "What was the Hoyle copyright worth? (part 1)", October 7, 2103.
    • "Hoyle's Games Improved, Charles Jones (1800)", November 21, 2011.
    • "Hoyle's Games Improved (1814): Who was the bookseller Gale? ", November 25, 2013.

  • An Epitome of Hoyle
    • "An Epitome of Hoyle, a Discovery, and two Coincidences ", June 22, 2104.

  • Robert Withy
    • "Bob Short's Short Rules for Short Memories", December 19, 2011.
    • "Who is 'Bob Short'? (part 1)", January 21, 2015
    • "Who is 'Bob Short'? (part 2)", January 28, 2015
    • "Who is 'Bob Short'? (part 3)", February 4, 2015
    • "Biographical Notes on Robert Withy (part 1)", October 17, 2017
    • "Biographical Notes on Robert Withy (part 2)", November 19, 2017

  • Charles Pigott
    • "The Pigott Hoyles", December 12, 2011.

  • The New Pocket Hoyle
    • "Late Hoyles, Early Slipcases", July 1, 2011.

• Later Hoyles
  • "Kicking and Screaming into the 19th Century", June 8, 2018.

Reprinted in Dublin

• "Early Dublin editions of Hoyle", September 22, 2011.
• "Individual Treatises in Ireland", February 21, 2012.
• "The Polite Gamester", February 27, 2012.
• "A copyright fight in Dublin?", March 5, 2012.
• "An unrecorded Dublin Hoyle?", August 6, 2012.
• "Every Cancel Tells a Story, Don't It? (part 1)", July 8, 2011.

Reprinted in Scotland

• "The Scottish Hoyles (part 1)", June 24, 2011.
• "The Scottish Hoyles (part 2)", June 27, 2011.
• "Revisiting a Scottish Hoyle", February 13, 2012.

• "A French Discovery ", July 21, 2014.
• "The first translation of Hoyle", March 12, 2012.
• "More translations: German, Italian, Russian, Dutch", March 19, 2012.
• "Hoyle in French", April 2, 2012.

• "The New Pocket Hoyle, New York, 1803", November 5, 2012.
• "Serendipity at the Library ", October 4, 2013.

Comemporary references to Hoyle

• "The Humours of Whist, a satire of Hoyle", August 29, 2011.
• "The Humours of Whist as a satire of piracy", September 1, 2011.
• "Contemporary References to Hoyle", September 5, 2011.
• "Schools for Whist?", October 24, 2011.
• "A 1760 Dramatic Comedy Mentioning Hoyle ", January 12, 2013.
• "The Hoyle Manuscript", April 1, 2013.

Collecting Hoyle

• "The Fans of Hoyle", October 13, 2011.
• "Unusual Bibliographical Evidence", November 12, 2012.
• "Hoyle's Scoring Method and Whist Counters", May 7, 2012.
• "More Hoyle collectibles", June 4, 2012.
• "2013: The Year in Collecting", December 19, 2013.
• "2013: One Final Collectible", December 31, 2013.
• "2014: The Year in Collecting", December 18, 2014.
• "2015: The Year in Collecting", January 3, 2016.
• "Fifth Anniversary: The half-year in collecting", June 22, 2016.
• "Piquet, Provenance, and a Puzzle", November 15, 2016.
• "2016: The Year in Collecting", December 8, 2016.
• "Another 2016 Acquisition", December 12, 2016.
• "2017: The Year in Collecting", December 29, 2017.
• "2018: The Year in Collecting", December 10, 2018.
• "2018: The Year in Collecting (addendum)", December 17, 2018.
• "2018: The Year in Collecting (second addendum)", December 31, 2018.
• "2019: The Year in Collecting", December 20, 2019.
• "2020: The Year in Collecting", November 27, 2020.
• "2020: The Year in Collecting (part 2)", January 14, 2021
• "2021: The Year in Collecting", November 22, 2021.
• "2021: The Year in Collecting (part 2)", November 22, 2021.
• "2021: The Year in Collecting (part 3) Who is William H?", January 9, 2022.
• "2021: The Year in Collecting (part 4)", February 2, 2022.
• "2022: The Year in Collecting", December 27, 2022.
• "Oddly Imposed. Oddly signed", May 9, 2023.
• "2023: The Year in Collecting", December 7, 2023.
• "2024: The Year in Collecting", November 18, 2024.
• "A 2025 Acquisition and Some Housekeeping", May 23, 2025.
• "2025: The Year of McTear", November 21, 2025.

Biographical information

• Hoyle
  • "Hoyle in Halifax? ", March 9, 2021.
  • "250 years", August 29, 2019.
  • "A conversation with Edmond Hoyle", August 16, 2012.
  • "Was Hoyle a 'careless editor'?", June 23, 2011.
  • "The Successors to Hoyle (part 1)", August 7, 2011.
  • "The Successors to Hoyle (part 2)", August 11, 2011.

• Cogan
  • "Biographical Notes on Francis Cogan, Bookseller", September 26, 2011.
  • "Toward a bibliography of books published by Francis Cogan, bookseller (part 1)", September 29, 2011.
  • "Toward a bibliography of books published by Francis Cogan, bookseller (part 2)", October 3, 2011.

Gaming Literature

• "Where can I learn more about Hoyle's writing?", August 1, 2011.
• "The Nature of Gaming Literature (part 1)", August 22, 2011.
• "The Nature of Gaming Literature (part 2)", August 25, 2011.
• "A Missing Book; A Trail of Breadcrumbs", February 18, 2015.
• "Eighteenth Century Whist Literature", May 14, 2012.
• "Le Grand Trictrac", April 3, 2015.
• "The Left Hand of Bougy: A Trictrac Manuscript (1772)", May 1, 2015.
• "Eighteenth Century Backgammon Literature", October 22, 2012.
• "Piquet and Quadrille Literature", August 28, 2012.
• "Contemporary Reviews of Gaming Literature", Septembers 5, 2013.
• "Advice to the Young Whist Player", December 10, 2012.
• "Whist in Song", May 21, 2012.
• "Whist on Stage", May 29, 2012.
• "The J. W. Rimington-Wilson Library (part 1)", September 7, 2012.
• "The J. W. Rimington-Wilson Library (part 2)", September 24, 2012.
• "More on Rimington-Wilson's Chess Manuscript", February 11, 2013.
• "More on Rimington-Wilson's Chess Manuscript (part 2)", February 19, 2013.
• "A Research Trip to Cleveland", August 6, 2013 .
• "From the pen and library of Henry Hucks Gibbs", December 5, 2011.
• "Information Whist", March 25, 2013.
• "Breaking News!", August 27, 2017.

On Bibliography

• "Levy versus Bowers on Collections", September 15, 2011.
• "What's in a Name?", October 20, 2011.
• "Second Anniversary: Continuities and Disruptions", June 22, 2013.

Digital Humanites

• "A database for the Hoyle copyright", October 21, 2013.
• "Hoyle Bibliography: technology update ", September 10, 2015.
• "Hoyle Bibliography: technology update (part 2)", September 27, 2015.
• "Hoyle Bibliography: technology update (part 3)", September 30, 2015.
• "Hoyle Bibliography: technology update (part 4)", March 1, 2026.
• "Who printed Piquet for Francis Cogan? Thank you Compositor!", January 25, 2021.

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