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Subject Terms Board games -- Great Britain -- 19th century.

1. Science in sport, or, The pleasure of astronomy : a new & instructive pastime : revised and approved by M. Bryan, of Blackheath

Science in sport, or, The pleasure of astronomy : a new & instructive pastime : revised and approved by M. Bryan, of Blackheath

Date:: [1804]
Physical Description:: 1 game : hand-colored engraving : sheet 43 x 55 cm, folded to 22 by 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

2. Hoyle's games improved : consisting of practical treatises on whist, quadrille, piquet ..., with an essay on game cocks ; wherein are comprised calculations for betting upon equal or advantageous terms / revised and corrected by Charles Jones, Esq.

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Creator:: Hoyle, Edmond, 1672–1769
Date:: 1800
Physical Description:: iv, 332 p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Hoyle's games improved : consisting of practical treatises on whist, quadrille, piquet ..., with an essay on game cocks and the rules, etc.: at horse races wherein are comprised calculations for betting upon equal or advantageous terms / revised and corrected by Charles Jones, Esq.

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Creator:: Hoyle, Edmond, 1672–1769
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: 502 p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The noble game of billiards : wherein are exhibited extraordinary & surprising strokes which have excited the admiration of most of the sovereigns of Europe / by Monsieur Mingaud.

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Creator:: Mingaud, François, 1771–1847
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: [2], 7, [1] p., [1], 40 leaves leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The Beast in the box : playing with Empire in early nineteenth-century Britain / Romita Ray.

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Creator:: Ray, Romita
Physical Description:: pp. 7-31 : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library