Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-04

URsDAY MORNING, APRIL 100
I'm this AFFAIR, which / hope win receive
the Concentrations OF every honest well
meaning Man and fair Gamester, and
yours In particular, which is the greatest
Ambition Of
Your sincere Friend. and
humble Servant
Hoyle and his publishers probably
failed to see the commercial Justice of
this plea; at leastit is known that they
Immediately instituted legal proceed
ings to prevent the unauthorized edi-
lions. Their widespread existence had
forced them to reduce the price of the
treatise in the second edition to
2 shillings a copy, and in the fourth
edition, published in 1743, the follow
ing notice was inserted and repeated
In subsequent editions until the time
Of the authors death:
1.-THE Proprietor of the following
Treatise has thought proper to give the
Public Notice that he has reduced the
Price of 1t, that 1t may not be worth
any Persons while to purchase the
pirated Editions, which have been al
ready obtruded on the World, as like
wise all those Piratical Editions are
extremely Incorrect; and that the Au-
thor will not5undertake to explain any
Case but in such Copies as have been
set forth by himself, or that. are Au-
thorized as Revised and Corrected UNI
der his own Hand.''
In the fifth edition, published in
1744, the rules for backgammon, piquet
and quadrille were added. Only one
known copy exists of the fifth edition,
1t being in the British museum In Lon
don. In later editions the rules for
the game Of chess were also included.
Royle's works ran through fifteen
editions during his lifetime, the last
one being revised by members Of the
famous Whites and Saunders clubs.
So popular had the name Of Hoyle be-
come In connection with card rules
that upward Of 100 volumes on card
rules have been published under his
name by various authors since his
time, and the word Hoyle has become
a synonym Of authority in card rules.
The name Of Hoyle's publisher,
Thomas Osborne, appears In connec-
ton with Hoyle's own in all Of the
autograph editions. Osborne was also
a celebrity in his time. II
He was a bookseller in Gray's Inn,
london, and is referred to: as ''the
bookseller who had the honor Of a
thrashing at the hands Of DR.. johnson,
a tricky and unreliable man, against
whom Pope had more than one griev
ance.' = sss,5s '' 3.S: .5sss
DR.. johnson was employed BY Os-
borne to prepare a catalogue. of the
library Of the late Earl OF Oxford,
which library had been purchased by
Mr.. Osborne. The thrashing referred
to evidently took place during this
business connection. Boswell in his
Life OF Johnson says: :s .
II ut has. been nfidentialIy related.
with many. Establishments, that John.
son one day knocked Osborne down In
his shop with "a folio and put Ills foot
upon his neck. The simple truth / had
from Johnson himself. Sir, he was inn
pertinent to me, and / hit him, but 1t
was not In his, shop; it was in my
chambers s.s a lsaa553
In the ,Piozzi anecdotes the incident
is described as follows: issl3 ST, III
"There ID nothing to tell. dearest
lady. but that he was insolent. and I
hit him. and he was ,blockhead and
told OF it5ftI have hit MANY 4. fellow.
but the rest had the wit to hold their
tongue" s.t.s
1 There ID in existence IL Tho sf,,ncin.
natl library before 5rafarrad =, ! =, mn.
script .conys of the9 HOWE straat;aa, IN
whist which nrece5ed fha nr;n+nd obi.
tions. The rnlas a.e concise and writ M
ION IN Main road ] hla q !, Gro
Hnv,a seams =, ba,., ,,,.ot,te.a Il, !.
exnerianca nf tho bast .,,a Iars .ne tta
day and introdrces !, 49, i ;,,nro -
ments ~ h,s own u,s ma, 4, - ~ ~,
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The fifteenth editian If h,s work 40
revised In 176o. ruled whist until 1854.