A short treatise on the game of whist. 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 point of the score of the game then playing and depending. Cases stated, to shew what may be effected by a very good player in critical 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's having 1, 2, or 3 certain cards. With variety of cases added in the appendix. By a gentleman

People / Organizations

• Edmond Hoyle (Author)
• W. Webster ("printed for")

Imprint

London] : Bath printed, and London reprinted [by James Mechell] for W. Webster near St. Paul's, and sold by all the booksellers and pamphlet shops in town and country, MDCCXLIII. [1743 The second edition.; ..

Publication year

1743

ESTC No.

T175497

Grub Street ID

212578

Description

8,[4],86p. ; 8°.

Note

A gentleman = Edmond Hoyle

With a half-title

The publisher's name is fictitious; a piracy printed by James Mechell

Quire A is in the same setting (except for the edition statement) as Mechell's first piracy (T106241). Copies may contain other quires in that first setting. Cf. David Levy, "Pirates, autographs, and a bankruptcy", in "Script & Print", 2010; his edition "Whist.2.1.2". See p. 157 for fingerprints of the two settings.