The accurate gamester's companion: 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. 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. The whole founded on the experience of Edmond Hoyle, Gent.

All titles

• The accurate gamester's companion: 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. 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. The whole founded on the experience of Edmond Hoyle, Gent.
• Short treatise on the game of whist

People / Organizations

• II Thomas Osborne ("printed for")
• Edmond Hoyle (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for Tho. Osborne: and sold by W. Reeve, at Shakespear's-Head, near Serjeant's-Inn-Gate, in Fleet-Street, [1748] [1750]

Publication year

1750-1750

ESTC No.

N22957

Grub Street ID

12315

Description

[4],84,24,121-224,[12]p. ; 12⁰

Note

Titlepage in red and black.

With initial and final advertisement leaves.

With separate titlepages to each treatise: 'A short treatise on the game of whist. .. The tenth edition', printed for T. Osborne, 1750; 'A short treatise on the game of quadrille. .. The second edition', printed for T. Osborne; J. Hildyard, at York; M. Bryson at Newcastle; an J. Leake, at Bath, 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 in 1748.

Price from imprint: price Three Shilling.