Accession number
PML 79484
Creator
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.
Published
[London] : Bath printed, and London reprinted, for W. Webster near St. Paul's, and sold by all the booksellers and pamphlet shops in town and country, MDCCXLIII [1743]
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Notes
Earliest piracy of Hoyle's first edition (see W.P. Courtney, p. 357).
Gentleman = Edmond Hoyle.
In this copy, fourth line of drop-head title to chapter 1: "The game of whist."
This copy contains half title
Gentleman = Edmond Hoyle.
In this copy, fourth line of drop-head title to chapter 1: "The game of whist."
This copy contains half title
Description
8, [4], 86 p. 21 cm
Provenance
Name on fly leaf: "R: Lee"; armorial bookplate of Norton Townshend Horr dated in ink "1898"; Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
3/4 morocco, marbled sides.
Classification
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Department