The accurate gamester's companion
Subtitle: containing infallible rules for playing the game of whist to perfection in all its branches : treated in an easy manner, and illustrated with variety of cases : also the laws of the game, calculations relative to it, &c
By: the whole founded on the experience of Edmond Hoyle, gent
Contributors: Osborne, Thomas, -1767, printer
Edition: The ninth edition, improv'd, to which are added the games of quadrille, piquet, chess and back-gammon, fully explain'd. Likewise a dictionary for whist, and an artificial memory.
Publisher: Printed for Tho. Osborne and sold by W. Reeve, at Shakespear's-Head, near Serjeant's-Inn-Gate, in Fleet-Street
Published: 1748
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Quadrille (Game); Early works to 1800; Piquet (Game); Backgammon; Chess; Card games; Ouvrages avant 1800; Échecs (Jeu); Jeux de cartes
Notes: At foot of title page, within parentheses: "Price Three Shillings."

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D¹² A¹² F-L¹².

Title in red and black.

Head- and tail-pieces; initials.

Printer's advertisements on the first unnumbered leaf verso and on the final two leaves.

With separate title pages for each treatise: 'A short treatise on the game of whist ... The tenth edition', printed for T. Osborne at Gray's-Inn, 1748; 'A short treatise on the game of quadrille ... The second edition', printed for T. Osborne, at Gray's-Inn; J. Hildyard, at York; M. Bryson at Newcastle; and J. Leake, at Bath, MDCCXLVIII [1748]; 'A short treatise on the game of piquet' and 'A short treatise on the game of back-gammon', both of the third edition, printed for T. Osborne, at Gray's-Inn MDCCXLVIII [1748].

BM (compact ed.), v. 12, p. 769

ESTC, T87516

Jessel. F. Bibliography of works in English on playing cards and gaming, 801
Table of contents: title: A short treatise on the game of whist (8th ed.); title: A short treatise on the game of quadrille (2nd ed.); title: A short treatise on the game of piquet (3rd ed.); title: A short treatise on the game of back-gammon (3rd ed.); title: Contents; title: Books printed for T. Osborne, bookseller in Gray's-Inn.