Price: £1,250
Subject: History
Published Date: c. 1724
Stock Number: 59253
(Card games) The Game of Quadrille;
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or Ombre by four, with its establish'd laws and rules, As it is now Play'd at the French Court. Done from the French, just printed at Paris. To which is added, the game of Quintille; or Ombre by Five, Both after the Old and New Manner.
Description: First English edition, decorated initials and ornaments, title and last verso a little soiled at margins, loss to extreme upper outer corner of title, minimal toning, pp. [4], 71, [1], 12mo, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, recased with new leather, endpapers renewed, original stab holes, boards rubbed, gilt-lettered morocco label, pastedown windowed to show 18thC armorial bookplate of the Wigan MP George Kenyon (1666-1728) of Peel, modern label of Roger Senhouse.Publication Details: [London]: Printed for R. Francklin, under Tom's Coffe-House, Covent-Garden, c. 1724
Notes: A good copy of the first English edition of this scarce anonymous manual, translated from the French, on the card game of quadrille. This was a variation (for four players) of ombre 'bettered suited the genius of Ladies'. Ombre was most fashionable in eighteenth-century England and France, and famously played by Belinda in Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock'. This manual was intended for beginners and provides instructions on the cards that should be used (usually 40), how to mark and pay, and play with or without calling a king. It also discusses quadrille by three and five, and the 'incidents' tha...more
Bibliography: (ESTC T116490)
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