[Rarebooks] FS: "Hoyle's Games" signed by Hoyle. (1767)

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Hoyle, Edmund. MR HOYLE’S GAMES of Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess, and 
Back-Gammon, Complete. In Which Are Contained the Method of Playing and Betting 
Those Games… The Fourteenth Edition. To Which Is Now First Added… The New Laws 
of the Game at Whist, As Played at White’s and Saunder’s Chocolate Houses. 
London: Printed for Thomas Osborne, Henry Woodfall, and Richard Baldwin. (1767). 
12mo. 5 parts in 1, each (except for “Chess”, as published) with its own 
section title page. (2),xii,216pp. Cont. calf, a bit soiled, rebacked. This copy 
has 2 variant title pages (both for the 14th edition). The first one is signed 
by Edmund Hoyle on the verso, to identify the un-pirated official publication. 
    $650.00 (trade discount allowed)
This is the final edition printed in Hoyle’s (d. 1769) lifetime.

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