The New Hoyle
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The New Hoyle
containing Easy Rules for Playing the Games of…..
Printed for G. Walker 1817
£50
12mo. (135x75x18mm.), gilt spine, full tree calf (sort of, see image), frontispiece of card players, extra engraved title page dated 1816, contemporary inscription in pencil on front blank and on recto of frontispiece, another inscription dated 1820 on verso of title page, very small repair at tail of spine, sound and very good.
An attractive little book. Some of the games described – Quadrille, Piquet, Lansquenet, Billiards, Tennis, Goff (sic), Rouge et Noir, Loo, Speculation.