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Publisher |
Pic |
Year Published |
Year originally published/written |
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Games and Pastimes of Childhood - An unabridged reprint of the 1657 Les jeux et plaisirs de l'enfance with 52 illustrations |
Jacques Stella |
Dover |
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1969 |
1657 |
Private Collection |
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys |
Samuel Pepys (Ed. by Lord Braybrooke) |
George Routledge & Sons |
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1906 |
1659-1669 |
Private Collection |
Have scanned the index and found entries for: Bowls, Cribbage, Nine Pins, Pell Mell, Shuffleboard (Shovelboard), Suckling, Tables (Backgammon), Tennis. Most of them are just mentions; only the Pell Mell instances have useful information. |
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Wits Interpreter: The English Parnassus Or, a sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing |
John Cragge |
N. Brook and Obadiah Blagrave |
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1671 |
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Levy Collection |
As Jessel notes, the third edition (the first published after the Restoration) is the earliest book containing a treatise on card games. It treats ombre, piquet, gleek, cribbage, and chess.
For the attribution to Cragge, see Joshua McEvilla, “John Cragge’s The Wits Interpreter” The Library 18:3 (2017) 337-344. |
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Francis Willughby's Book of Games. A seventeenth Century Treatise on Sports, Games and Pastimes |
Francis Willughby. Ed. David Crann, Jeffrey L. Forgeng and Dorothy Johnston |
Ashgate |
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2003 |
[1672] |
Private Collection |
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Compleat Gamester or, Instructions how to play at all manner of usual and most genteel games, The |
Charles Cotton |
Barre |
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1970 |
1674 |
Private Collection |
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Games and Gamesters of the Restoration |
Charles Cotton & Theophilus Lucas |
Kennikat |
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1930 |
[1674-1714] |
Private Collection |
Actually 2 books with an introduction by Cyril Hughes Hartmann. The 1674 Compleat Gamester by Cotton and Lives of the Gamesters by Lucas, 1714. |
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Grammar of the English Tongue |
Brightland |
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1712 |
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Ballam (Not in John Johnson Collection at Bodleian) |
Presumably for childrens education. No games relevancy
Keyword |
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New Rules for the game of Mail, Concerning the Manner of Playing it Properly, and of Deciding the Various Points which may Arise in the Game |
Andrew Lang |
Charles Huguier & Andr? Cailleau |
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1910 |
1717 |
Private Collection |
xiii, 74 pp. Introduction by Andrew Lang. Illustrated with 4 plates from wood engravings. (24mo) 5½x3¼, publisher's full red calf, gilt-lettered & tooled spine, inner gilt dentelles, floral patterned endpapers, all edges gilt, original glassine. Facsimile Edition.
Facsimile of the edition of 1717 by Lauthier, which described the French game similar to Scottish golf. |
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The Court-Gamester |
Richard Seymour |
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2011 |
1722 |
Private Collection |
Self print fascimile of original 3rd edition |
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Poesies sur la Constitution Unigenitus |
Chevalier de G.... |
Philalete Belhumeur, Villefranche, France |
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1724 |
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Private Collection |
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A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist |
Edmond Hoyle |
author |
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1742 |
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Levy Collection |
See a full bibliographical description, later editions and translations, and further discussion. |
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A Short Treatise on the Game of Backgammon |
Edmond Hoyle |
Francis Cogan |
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1743 |
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Levy Collection |
See a full bibliographical description and a list of later editions. |
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An Artificial Memory at the Game of Whist |
Edmond Hoyle |
Francis Cogan |
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1743 |
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Levy Collection |
See a full bibliographical description. |
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The ill effects of the game of rowlet, otherwise rowley-powley... |
Amos Docultree |
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2011 |
1744 |
Private Collection |
Print your own Facsimile of an 18th century pamphlet. |
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A Short Treatise on the Game of Piquet |
Edmond Hoyle |
Francis Cogan |
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1744 |
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Not part of a recorded collection |
See a full bibliographical description and a list of later editions and translations. |
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A Short Treatise on the Game of Quadrille |
Edmond Hoyle |
Francis Cogan |
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1744 |
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Levy Collection |
See a full bibliographical description and a list of later editions. |
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The Laws of the Game of Whist Designed for Framing |
Edmond Hoyle |
Thomas Osborne |
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1746 |
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Levy Collection |
A chapter of Hoyle's whist treatise that was separately published as a sheet to hang above the whist table. See a full bibliographical description and discussion of a first edition of which no copie... |
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Mr. Hoyle's Games |
Edmond Hoyle |
Thomas Osborne |
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1748 |
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Levy Collection |
The first collected edition of Hoyle, published under various titles. See a full bibliographical description and a list of later editions and piracies. |
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A Short Treatise on the Game of Brag |
Edmond Hoyle |
author |
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1751 |
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Not part of a recorded collection |
See a full bibliographical description. |
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The Doctrine of Chances |
Edmond Hoyle |
author |
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1754 |
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Not part of a recorded collection |
See a full bibliographical description and a list of later editions. |
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A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM (1st & 4th editions) |
Samuel Johnson |
Cambridge University Press |
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1996 |
1755 |
Private Collection |
A searchable digital version of Johnson's original dictionary and the 4th edition of it. Search results show the entry from both editions so one can compare. |
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The History of Gambling (portion extracted from The Gentleman's Magazine) |
Justice Fielding |
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1756 |
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Private Collection |
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An Essay on Chess |
Edmond Hoyle |
Thomas Osborne |
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1761 |
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Levy Collection |
See a full bibliographical description. |
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J. Clodii primae lineare Bibliothecae Lusoriae sive Notitia Scriptorum de ludis praecipue domesticis ac privatis ordine alphabetico digesta |
Henrich Jonathan Clodius |
Zentralantiquariat der DDR |
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1971 |
1761 |
Levy Collection |
A facsimile reprint of the 1761 Clodius bibliography of gaming literature. |
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Hieroglyphic Bible (incomplete) |
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Unknown |
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c1770 |
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Ballam (Not in John Johnson Collection at Bodleian) |
Incomplete copy. First page after title page is 15
An early example of combining religious education with a puzzle |
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Hoyle's Games Improved |
James Beaufort |
Samuel Bladon |
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1775 |
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Levy Collection |
See a full bibliographical description and a list of later editions printed in London and America. |
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Hoyle's Games Improved |
Charles Jones |
J. Rivington, et al |
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1775 |
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Levy Collection |
See a full bibliographical description and a list of later editions and separately published extracts. |
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Hoyle's Games Improved |
"Thomas Jones" |
"W. Wood" |
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1778 |
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Levy Collection |
A piracy of Hoyle's Game Improved by Charles Jones (1775). The names of the author and publisher are fictitious. See a full bibliographical description and a list of later editions. |
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Academie Universelle Des Jeux |
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D.J. Changuion & T. Van Harrevelt |
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1786 |
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Private Collection |
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Academie Universale Des Jeux Vols. 1, 2 & 3 |
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Changuion & Harrevelt |
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1786 |
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Private Collection |
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