Hoyle's games
Subtitle: Illustrated edition. Embracing all the most modern modes of play, and the rules practised at the present time, in billiards, whist, draughts, cribbage, backgammon, and all other fashionable games ; together with sixteen games adapted to the new Yankee-notion cards. Also the whole of Frère's chess hand-book. Containing, besides elementary instruction and the laws of chess, about fifty select games by the first players; endings of games, and the defeat of the Muzio gambit. Also, thirty-six of the choicest chess problems, and a description of, and rules for, four-handed chess
By: by Thomas Frère
Publisher: T. W. Strong
Published: 1857
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Games; Billiards; Whist; Checkers; Cribbage; Backgammon; Chess
Other titles: Frère's chess hand-book.