Hoyle's games improved consisting of practical treatises on whist quadrille piquet chess back-gammon draughts cricket tennis quinze vingt-un hazard lansquenet billiards faro or pharo rouge & noir cribbage matrimony cassino goff or golf connexions reversis put all-fours and speculation with an essay on game cocks; wherein are comprised calculations for betting upon equal or advantageous terms. Revised and corrected by Charles Jones Esq

People / Organizations

• M. Ritchi ("printed by")
• Edmond Hoyle (Author)

Imprint

London : printed by M. Ritchie, Middle Street, Cloth Fair, for R. Baldwin, T. Payne, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Scatcherd, Longman and Rees, E. Newbery, W. Stewart, J. Lee, T. Hurst, and J. Mawman, 1800. A new edition considerably enlarged.; ..

Publication year

1800

ESTC No.

T87524

Grub Street ID

307568

Description

iv,332p.,plate ; 12°.

Note

Below imprint: Price four shillings bound

The "essay on game cocks" (p. 309-331) is mostly the same text, in the same typesetting, as "Directions for breeding game-cocks" (new edition, 1800)

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