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 : calculations for those who will bet the odds on any points of the score of the game then playing and depending : cases stated to shew what may be effected by a very good player in critcal parts of the game : references to cases, viz. at the end of the rule you are directed how to find them : calculations, directing with moral certainty, how to play well any hand or game, by shewing the chances of your partner having 1, 2, or 3 certain cards : with variety of cases added in the appendix
By: by Edmond Hoyle, Gent
Contributors: Jerry and Gene Jones Jefferson Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The sixth 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 at York, M. Bryson at Newcaste [sic], and J. Leake at Bath
Published: 1746
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Whist; Early works to 1800
Notes: Note of approbation signed [in ms.] Edmond Hoyle (t.p. verso).

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-G⁶ H⁴ (1st leaf blank).

LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection.

With: Hoyle, Edmond. A short treatise on the game of quadrille ... London : Printed for T. Osborne ..., 1745 -- Hoyle, Edmond. A short treatise on the game of piquet ... The second edition. London : Printed for T. Osborne ..., MDCCXLVI [1746] -- Hoyle, Edmond.  A short treatise on the game of back-gammon ... London : Printed for T. Osborne ..., 1745. Issued separately.

Sowerby, E.M.  Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 1175

ESTC T87541

LC copy gift of Jerry and Gene Jones. Has bookplate: J.H.