British writer (1672–1769) whose best-selling codifications of the rules for the most popular card games of his day led to the familiar authoritative phrase ‘according to Hoyle.’ Signed book: Hoyle’s Games. Later printing. London: Thomas Osborne Henry Woodfall, and Richard Baldwin, 1765. Hardcover, 4 x 6.25, 216 pages. Signed in black ink on an inside page under a printed message which reads, in part: “The Proprietor of the following Treatise has thought proper to give public notice, that he has reduced the price of it, that it may not be worth any Persons while to purchase the Pirated Editions, which have already been obtruded on the World.” Autographic condition: fine, with some scattered light toning. Book condition: G+/None. Hoyle was the first to write scientifically on Whist, or indeed any card game; his laws of 1760, revised by members of White's and Saunders's clubs, served as the standard rules for the game until 1864.
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