Accession number
PML 79487
Creator
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.
Published
London : Printed for T. Osborne, at Gray's Inn, 1748.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Notes
Each treatise has a separate title page: "A short titreatise on the game of whist .. the eighth edition," A short treatise on the game of quadrille ... The second edition," "A short treatise on the game of piquet... The third edition, and "A short treatise on the game of back-gammon ...The third edition." All have the Osborne imprint and the date 1748.
List of Osborne books, 3 pages at end.
Text continuous, despite pagination.
The composite title looks like a fly title, with no imprint, although it gives the price: 3s.
Wth an index
List of Osborne books, 3 pages at end.
Text continuous, despite pagination.
The composite title looks like a fly title, with no imprint, although it gives the price: 3s.
Wth an index
Description
[4], 74, [3], 100-224, [15] p. ; 17 cm
Provenance
Norton Townshend Horr; Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Calf.
Classification
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Department