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(GBP) £180,00 (EUR) €207,76 |
Starting bid: | (GBP) £180,00 (EUR) €207,76 |
# of bids: | 1 |
Closes: | Auction is closed |
Location: | Great Britain (UK) |
Started: | 2020-03-01 22:20:14 |
Ended: | 2020-03-07 19:05:00 |
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The copy of William Makepeace Thackeray
Hoyle (E.): Mr. Hoyle's Games of Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess, and Backgammon, Complete, in which are contained The Method of Playing and Betting at those Games...The Laws of the Several Games. London, Printed for Thomas Osborne... James Hodges... and Richard Baldwin. n.d.(c.1770.)
11th Edn. Sm8vo (90 x 150mm) contemporary leather, covers worn, rebacked with later leather, top hinge cracked, contained within a cloth slipcase with handwritten title on spine, end-paper and first page loose otherwise In good condition for its age. pp xii,208. Chess on p.149-164. Signed by Edmond Hoyle and Thomas Osborne. (This was to protect against pirated copies as stated in the advertisement.) LN 3494.
SIGNATURE OF W.M.THACKERAY ON FRONT ENDPAPER. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was one of the foremost British authors of the 19th century, one of his best-known novels being "Vanity Fair".
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