Card Games
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1882 Rules of BaccaratLondon: [1882]Very scarce first edition of this book of rules of the card game Baccarat.
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1883 Illustrated Games of PatienceLondon: 1883Lady Cadogan's guide to playing card games, with a colour plate for each of the games included; a scarce book in this fourth edition.
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1899 The Laws of Bridge and How to Play BridgeLondon: 1899A very scarce sixth edition of this guide to playing Bridge, in the publisher's original cloth binding.
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c1870 The Secret Out; or, One Thousand Tricks in Drawing-Room or White MagicLondon: c1870A delightful nineteenth-century work on drawing room card games and tricks by Gustave Frikell, illustrated throughout.
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1860 Patience by PerseveranceLondon : 1860A beautifully colour illustrated copy of the rules and process of the card game Patience.
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1886 Cassell's Book of Indoor Amusements, Card Games, and Fireside FunLondon: 1886A wonderful collection of in-door amusements, including card games and 'fireside fun', published by Cassell and Company in 1886 with a range of in-text illustrations.
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1916 Fortune Telling by CardsLondon: 1916A scarce work on fortune telling using playing cards, illustrated throughout with diagrams.
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1859 Whist; Its Theory and PracticeLondon: [1859]A little pocket sized guide to the card game of whist, with information on loo, and cribbage. The rare first edition of this volume.
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1863 Hoyle's Games ModernisedLondon: [1863]A practical and extensive guide to all the most popular games in the nineteenth century, including whist, chess, billiards, and more.
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1877 The Correct CardLondon: 1877An uncommon guide to the classic English card game 'Whist', by Arthur Campbell-Walker.
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1779 Hoyle's Games Improved Treatises Fashionable Whist Edmond Hoyle UncommonLondon: 1779An uncommon copy of this work on popular games by Edmond Hoyle.
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1898 The Laws and Principles of Whist Cavendish Illustrated GamesLondon: 1898An illustrated guide to the laws and principles of Whist by "Cavendish"
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1892 The Laws of Piquet Games Cavendish Henry Jones Cavendish Eighth EditionLondon : 1892An instructional work on the game of Piquet.
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1760 Mr Hoyles Games of Whist Chess Piquet etc Twelfth Edition Signed Game RulesLondon: [1760-1]The twelfth official edition of Hoyle's 'Games.' -
1921 Dominoes and Solitaire by Berkeley Illustrate The Club Series W. H. PeelLondon: 1921An illustrated guide to dominoes and solitaire.