The polite gamester: containing, short treatises on the games of whist, quadrille, back-gammon, piquet and chess. Together with An artificial memory, or, an easy method of assisting the memory of those that play ... whist. By Edmund Hoyle.
| Author/creator | Hoyle, Edmond |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | A new addition [sic], with great additions .. |
| Publication Info | Dublin : printed for G. and A. Ewing, 1752. |
| Description | 8 unnumbered pages, 56;12;23, 1 unnumbered page;2 unnumbered pages, 69, 1 unnumbered page;43, 1 unnumbered page ; 12⁰. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text online |
| Uniform title | Short treatise on the game of whist |
| General note | With separate titlepage, pagination and register to each part. |
| General note | Contains: 'A short treatise on the game of whist', thirteenth edition, 1752; 'An artificial memory', 1751; 'A short treatise on the game of quadrille', 1745; 'A short treatise on the game of back-gammon', 1744; 'A short treatise on the game of piquet', fourth edition, 1752, all published by G. and A. Ewing in Dublin. |
| General note | With an initial advertisement leaf. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from the Harvard University Houghton Library. |
| References | English Short Title Catalog, ESTCN22882. |
| Reproduction note | Joyner- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements |