Foster’s Complete HOYLE. An Encyclopedia of All the Indoor Games Played at the Present Day, With Suggestions for Good Play, A Full Code of Laws, Illustrative Hands. And a Brief Statement of the Doctrine of Chances as Applied to Games, Illustrated with numerous diagrams and engravings; Cover title: Hoyle, An Encyclopedia of Indoor Games

London and New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, Publishers, 1897. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. First edition. 12mo; xi [i], 625pp + [1]publisher’s ad; red cloth over board, title gilt-stamped, vignette of cards, dominos and game pieces stamped to front; illustrated with game plays; scuffing to boards, bumping to corners with loss, light shelf soiling to upper edge; very good. Edmond Hoyle (1672-1769) was an early 18th century English writer concentrating on the rules of card games, whose name became synonymous for following the rules. Robert Foster’s (1853-1945) rule book covered the rules for card and other indoor table games of chance and skill, some of which are common and many that are now uncommon today. (Inventory #: 883)