Hoyle's games improved: being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist, quadrille, Hiquet, Chess, Back-gammon, Billiards, Cricket, Tennis, Quince, Hazard, and Lansquenet. In which are also contained, the method of betting at those Games upon equal or advantageous Terms. including the laws of the several games, as settled and agreed to at White's and Stapleton's Chocolate Houses. Revised and corrected by Thomas Jones, Esq.

People / Organizations

• Edmond Hoyle (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for W. Wood, in Fleet-Street; and sold by all booksellers, M,DCC,LXXXII. [1782]

Publication year

1782-1782

ESTC No.

T63337

Grub Street ID

288593

Description

xii,216p. ; 12⁰

Note

'A short treatise on the game of whist', 'A short treatise on the game of quadrille; .. The eighth edition', 'A short treatise on the game of piquet; .. The eighth edition', 'A short treatise on the game of back-gammon. .. The ninth edition' have separate divisional titlepages; text and register are continuous.