Hoyle's games improved. Being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, back-gammon, draughts, cricket, tennis, quinze, hazard, lansquenet, and billiards. 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 Charles Jones, Esq;

People / Organizations

• Edmond Hoyle (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for J.F. and C. Rivington, and J. Wilkie, St. Paul's Church-Yard; T. Payne, and Son, St. Martin's-Lane; S. Crowder, and R. Baldwin, Pater-noster-Row; T. Lowndes, in Fleet-Street; T. Caslon, and B. Law, Avemary-Lane; F. Newbery, Ludgate-Street; W. Domville, Royal Exchange; W. Davis, Piccadilly; and J. Ridley, St. James's-Street, 1779.

Publication year

1779

ESTC No.

T87526

Grub Street ID

307570

Description

xii,294,[6]p.,plate ; 12°.

Note

With three final advertisement leaves

Price below imprint in square brackets: Price three shillings

The type of the section on billiards, written by John Dew, was reimposed and separately issued as "A treatise on billiards", 1779 (ESTC T199877).