The polite gamester: containing, short treatises on the games of whist, with an artificial memory, quadrille, back-gammon, piquet and chess. Together with an essay towards making the doctrine of chances easy ... To which are added, some useful tables ... By Edmund Hoyle, gent [electronic resource].

Author: Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769
Uniform Title: Short treatise on the game of whist
Published: Dublin : printed by T. Ewing, 1772.
Physical Description: 10 unnumbered pages, 217, 1 unnumbered page ; 12⁰.

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Eighteenth century collections online. History and geography

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'An artificial memory', 'A short treatise on the game of quadrille', 'A short treatise on the game of back-gammon' (1771), 'A treatise on the game of piquet' (1771), 'Some rules and observations for playing well at chess' and 'An essay towards making the doctrine of chances easy' have separate titlepages; pagination and register are continuous.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements

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English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT129141.

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