A short treatise on the game of back-gammon
Subtitle: containing a table of the thirty-six chances with directions how to find out the odds of being hit upon single or double dice, rules whereby a beginner may, with due attention to them, attain to playing it well, the several stages for carrying your men home in order to lose no point, how to find out who is forwardest to win a hit, cases stated for back-games with directions how to play for one, cases stated how to know when you may have the better of saving a gammon by running, variety of cases of curiosity and instruction, the laws of the game
By: by Edmond Hoyle ...
Contributors: McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for T. Osborne ... J. Hildyard ... M. Bryson ... and J. Leake
Published: 1745
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 61
Subjects: Backgammon -- Early works to 1800.
Notes: Signatures: [A]1 B-F⁶ [G]1.
Includes index.
With: Hoyle, Edmond. A short treatise on the game of whist. London : Printed for T. Osborne ... J. Hildyard ... M. Bryson ... and J. Leake, 1747. Bound together subsequent to publication.
Source: Gift of John J. and Hanna M. McManus and Morris N. and Chesley V. Young, Oct. 12, 1955.