page_title: Edmond Hoyle
section_title: Other published works
hierarchical_section_title: Edmond Hoyle / Other published works
caption_attribution_description: The title page of Edmond Hoyle's book A Short Treatise on the Game of Back-Gammon
context_page_description: Edmond Hoyle was a writer best known for his works on the rules and play of card games. The phrase "according to Hoyle" came into the language as a reflection of his generally perceived authority on the subject; since that time, use of the phrase has expanded into general use in situations in which a speaker wishes to indicate an appeal to a putative authority.
context_section_description: Cogan published other works by Hoyle: A Short Treatise on the Game of Backgammon (1743), the curious An Artificial Memory for Whist (1744), and more short treatises on the games of piquet and chess (1744) and quadrille (1744).
  Cogan became bankrupt in 1745 and sold the Hoyle copyrights to Thomas Osborne, who published Hoyle's treatises with much more success.
  Hoyle wrote a treatise on the game of brag (1751), a book on probability theory (1754), and one on chess (1761). Over time, Hoyle's work pushed off the market Charles Cotton's ageing The Compleat Gamester, which had been considered the "standard" English-language reference work on the playing of games – especially gambling games – since its publication in 1674.
caption: Hoyle's A Short Treatise on the Game of Back-Gammon
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