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Seller's Description:
Good+ with no dust jacket. Toned, owner's signature on dedication page, rubbed at spine head and tail, light edgewear, bookseller's label on rear paste-down, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Frederic Jessel; A Bibliography of Works in English on Playing Cards and Gaming; 958. Listed ahead of the 1880 Holt edition in Jessel, thus an early American edition. As issued, this publication has no frontispiece of "Cavendish". "...collects and gives to the world a remarkably pleasant and useful series of essays upon whist and its ways and surroundings."-Saturday Review. Jones, Hoyle's contemporary and equal, gave up his surgery practice for a career as an editor of cards and amusements in popular London publications. An uncommon early American printing of what is considered one of his two finest works.; 257 pages.
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Good. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall Ownership signature dated 1881 on title page, old pencil bookseller notes on rear pastedown indicating rarity. Previous owner cryptic pencil note in advertisement section referring to 100 oz. blood. Some foxing to title and half-title page. Some wear to edges of cloth. Overall though, a good, sound copy. Original endsheets. Expected age-toning to paper.
