Title: Hoyle's Games Improved, Being Practical Treatises on Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess...and Goff or Golf.... Author: Hoyle, Edmond Place: London Publisher: J.F. & C. Rivington, et al. Date: 1790 Description: viii, 290, + [2] ad pp. Illustrations, including folding plate of billiard tables. 6¼x3¾, period calf, gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. New Edition, "Revised and corrected by Charles Jones " Joe Murdoch's copy with his bookplate. This was the first edition in which the game of golf appeared. The final 2½ pages are devoted to golf, "The favourite Summer Amusement in Scotland..." The section describes feathery balls, various irons, general course layouts, and one paragraph of rules. D&M 330; D&J H25510. * Also, includes: The New Pocket Hoyle, Part II, Consisting of Gentlemen's Games: Billiards, Chess, Cricket, Tennis...Goff, Horace Racing...New Improvements by Charles Jackson. 371 pp. 5x3, period half cloth & marbled boards (just fair, front cover separated, edge wear, rubbing, dampstains). London: T. Davison, 1808. Together, 2 volumes. Lot Amendments Condition: 1790 edition: rubbing, joints starting to split, shelf wear, creases to spine; hinges cracking, occasional minor marginal dampstains, faint foxing; good or better. Scarce. Item number: 170390
Title: Hoyle's Games Improved, Being Practical Treatises on Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess...and Goff or Golf.... Author: Hoyle, Edmond Place: London Publisher: J.F. & C. Rivington, et al. Date: 1790 Description: viii, 290, + [2] ad pp. Illustrations, including folding plate of billiard tables. 6¼x3¾, period calf, gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. New Edition, "Revised and corrected by Charles Jones " Joe Murdoch's copy with his bookplate. This was the first edition in which the game of golf appeared. The final 2½ pages are devoted to golf, "The favourite Summer Amusement in Scotland..." The section describes feathery balls, various irons, general course layouts, and one paragraph of rules. D&M 330; D&J H25510. * Also, includes: The New Pocket Hoyle, Part II, Consisting of Gentlemen's Games: Billiards, Chess, Cricket, Tennis...Goff, Horace Racing...New Improvements by Charles Jackson. 371 pp. 5x3, period half cloth & marbled boards (just fair, front cover separated, edge wear, rubbing, dampstains). London: T. Davison, 1808. Together, 2 volumes. Lot Amendments Condition: 1790 edition: rubbing, joints starting to split, shelf wear, creases to spine; hinges cracking, occasional minor marginal dampstains, faint foxing; good or better. Scarce. Item number: 170390
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