A short treatise on the game of whist
Subtitle: containing the laws of the game and also some rules whereby a beginner may, with due attention to them, attain to the playing it well ... with variety of cases added in the appendix
By: by Edmond Hoyle ...
Contributors: Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.; McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The seventh edition, with great additions to the laws of the game and an explanation of the calculations which are necessary to be understood by those who would play it well, and also, never before published, a dictionary for whist, which resolves almost all the critical cases that may happen at the game, to which is added, An artificial memory, or, An easy method of assisting the memory of those that play at the game of whist, and several cases not hitherto published.
Publisher: Printed for T. Osborne ... J. Hildyard ... M. Bryson ... and J. Leake
Published: 1747
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Whist -- Early works to 1800.
Notes: Signatures: pi1 2pi² B-G⁶ H⁴.
With: Hoyle, Edmond. A short treatise on the game of quadrille. London : Printed for F. Cogan ..., 1744. Hoyle, Edmond. A short treatise on the game of piquet. London : Printed for T. Osborn ... J. Hildyard ... M. Bryson ... and J. Leake, 1746. Hoyle, Edmond. A short treatise on the game of back-gammon. London : Printed for T. Osborn ... J. Hildyard ... M. Bryson ... and J. Leake, 1745. Bound together subsequent to publication.
LC copy signed by the author.
Source: Gift of John J. and Hanna M. McManus and Morris N. and Chesley V. Young, Oct. 12, 1955.