Hoyle, EdmondMr. Hoyle’s games of whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, and back-gammon. Complete. In which are contained, the method of playing and betting, at those games … London: Printed for Thomas Osborne; Henry Woodfall; and Richard Baldwin, [1763] 12mo (143 x 89 mm). Notice on title-page verso bearing the signatures of Edmond Hoyle and Thomas Osborne, divisional titles for each game but with continuous pagination and register; marginal browning to title-page and terminal leaf K12. Contemporary calf; worn, numerous scrapes to boards, upper board detached, lower joint cracked. The thirteenth edition, first advertised in the London Evening Post 13 December 1763. The notice on the title-page verso reads: " The Proprietor has already obtained an Injunction against Nine Persons, for pirating or selling pirated Editions. No copies of this Book are genuine, but what are signed by Edmond Hoyle and Thomas Osborne," who both duly signed the page's bottom margin, "Edmond Hoyle | Tho. Osborne." REFERENCE:ESTC N4079Condition reportCondition as described in catalogue entry.
Hoyle, EdmondMr. Hoyle’s games of whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, and back-gammon. Complete. In which are contained, the method of playing and betting, at those games … London: Printed for Thomas Osborne; Henry Woodfall; and Richard Baldwin, [1763] 12mo (143 x 89 mm). Notice on title-page verso bearing the signatures of Edmond Hoyle and Thomas Osborne, divisional titles for each game but with continuous pagination and register; marginal browning to title-page and terminal leaf K12. Contemporary calf; worn, numerous scrapes to boards, upper board detached, lower joint cracked. The thirteenth edition, first advertised in the London Evening Post 13 December 1763. The notice on the title-page verso reads: " The Proprietor has already obtained an Injunction against Nine Persons, for pirating or selling pirated Editions. No copies of this Book are genuine, but what are signed by Edmond Hoyle and Thomas Osborne," who both duly signed the page's bottom margin, "Edmond Hoyle | Tho. Osborne." REFERENCE:ESTC N4079Condition reportCondition as described in catalogue entry.
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