Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Blyth, Augustus Frederick
Title:
The whist-player : the laws and practice of short-whist explained and illustrated / by Lieut.-Colonel B****.
Published / Created:
London : Addey and Co., Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, MDCCCLVI [1856]
Physical Description:
72 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
GV1277 .B59 1856
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
NSTC and the British Library attribute book to Henry Charles Bunbury.

Halfkett & Laing identifies author as Lieut.-Col. ______ Blyth.

Numerous engraved illustrations of card hands in red and black throughout. Included in pagination and register.

Printed by Robson, Levey and Franklyn, Great New Square and Fetter Lane.

NSTC, 2B50

British Museum. General catalogue of printed books to 1955 (compact edition), v. 4, 779

Halkett, S. Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous English literature (1926-62 edition), v. 6, p. 227

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's gilt- and blind-stamped blue cloth. Inscribed: Lieut. Colonel George Thornton.
Subject Terms:
Whist. | Short whist. | Card games -- Rules. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Addey and Co. -- Publisher. | Robson, Levey and Franklyn -- Printer.
Form/Genre:
Chromoxylographs -- 1856.
Contributors:
Bunbury, Henry Charles, attributed name.