The academy of play : containing, a full description of, and the laws of play, now observed in the several academies of Paris, relative to the following games, viz. piquet, quadrille, ombre, qaintille, piquemdrill, imperial, the reverse, papillon, l'ambigu, commerce, tontine, lottery, ma commerce, la mariě, triomphe, the beast, la mounche, man d'auvergne, the farm, the game of hoc, l'emprunt, le poque, romestecq, sizette, guinguette, le sixte, vingt-quatre, la belle, gillet, cul-bas, the cuckoo, brusquembille, the comet. From the French of the abbb̌ellecour.

Author/creator Bellecour
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Publication InfoDublin : Printed by James Potts, bookseller, at Swift's-Head, in Dame-street, M,DCC,LXVIII. [1768]
Description8 unnumbered pages, 280 pages : illustrations ; 12⁰.
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Uniform titleAcademie universelle des jeux. English
General noteReproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
References English Short Title Catalog, T163437.
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