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Hoyle, Edmond

Mr. Hoyle's Games

for Thomas Osborne, James Hodges, and Richard Baldwin London, c.1755 of Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess and Back-gammon, Complete. In which are contained, The Method of Playing and Betting, at those Games, upon equal, or advantageous Terms. Including The Laws of several Games. The Eleventh Edition. 12mo. [160 x 90 x 25 mm]. [3]ff, xii, 208 pp. Newly bound in old-style marbled calf, the spine lettered on a green goatskin label, plain endleaves, untrimmed edges. A very good copy. With the half-title, with a notice "to the Reader" on the verso, warning against pirate editions and with the ink signature of the publisher Thomas Osborne. The author, Edmond Hoyle, has similarly appended his signature to the foot of the title-page.

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