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 |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Dublin : Printed by James Potts, bookseller, at Swift's-Head, in Dame-street, M,DCC,LXVIII. [1768] |
| Description | 8 unnumbered pages, 280 pages : illustrations ; 12⁰. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text online |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Academie universelle des jeux. English |
| General note | Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford). |
| References | English Short Title Catalog, T163437. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
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