Hoyle's Games 1826
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Author: Hoyle, [Edmond]
Title: Hoyle's Games Improved, Consisting of Practical Treatises on...Goff or Golf...
Place Published: London
Publisher:Geo. B. Whittaker, et. al.
Date Published: 1826
Description:
Author: Hoyle, [Edmond]
Title: Hoyle's Games Improved, Consisting of Practical Treatises on...Goff or Golf...
Place Published: London
Publisher:Geo. B. Whittaker, et. al.
Date Published: 1826
Description:
x, 512 pp. 13.7x9 cm (5¼x3½") re-backed leather spine lettered in gilt, contemporary calf boards. Revised and corrected by Charles Jones.
Page 435 starts a brief section of "The Game of Goff or Golf." Accounting for the revision which added Ecarté and Short Whist, the esteemed gentleman Jones writes "...nothing has been taken away, except the games of Skittles and Dutch Pins, which were deemed too low in their nature to find a place among gentlemanly amusements."
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Some rubbing and wear to period boards; mild stain to outside edge; light foxing within; very good or better.
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