Dick and Fitzgerald Catalog (1866)
Dick's Games of Patience; or, Solitaire with Cards. New and Revised Edition. Containing Sixty-four Games. Illustrated with Fifty explanatory full-page Tableaux. This treatise on Solitaire embraces a number of new and original Games, and all the Games of Patience at present in favor with the most experienced players. Each game is carefully and lucidly described, with the distinctive rules to be observed and hints as to the best means of success in play. The Tableaux furnish efficient aid in rendering the disposition of the cards necessary to each game plain and easily comprehensible. The difficulty usually attending descriptions of intricate games is reduced, as far as possible, by precision in method and terseness of expression in the text, and the illustrations serve to dispel any possible ambiguity that might be unavoidable without their aid. Quarto, 143 pages.
Board covers 75 cts.
Cloth $1.00
Modern Whist. A Treatise on the Game of Whist, introducing all the modern methods and usages of the scientific game, mainly derived from the latest works of "Cavendish", the leading authority in all that pertains to the game of Whist.
The most advantageous leads, according to "Cavendish", as well as the system of "American Leads", are given in detail, including a critical analysis, with Tables and Illustrations, of the best play for second and third hands.
This treatise contains all the instruction necessary to make an expert modern Whist player.
Paper covers 25 cts.
Pole on Whist. The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist. By William Pole, F.R.S. This complete and exhaustive Treatise on the Game is in handy form for the pocket, and affords lucid instructions at all stages of the Game for partners to play in combination for their best interests.
20 cts.
American Leads at Whist. A condensed Treatise abridged from the well-known work by "Cavendish", explaining and elucidating the generally accepted modern methods of American Leads as applied to legitimate signaling between partners during the progress of the game. Illustrated with Diagrams.
Vest pocket size 15 cts.
Cinch. A thorough hand-book of the game of Cinch, containing the correct method of playing, and the Laws which govern it; compiled from the best and most reliable authorities. By "Trumps".
10 cts.
Robertson's Guide to the Game of Draughts. Embracing all of the twenty-two well-known Openings, with 3340 Variations, including and correcting all that are given in the leading treatises already published, with about 1200 new and original Variations which appear for the first time in this work, forming a thorough and complete digest and analysis of the Game, with corrections and additions up to the present time. The number of moves aggregate nearly 100,000. Match play by Yates, Wyllie, Barker, and others, will be found regularly classified. A change has been made in the trunks generally, and throughout the whole work there appears much that is fresh and original.
Cloth, 8vo., 320 pages. $3.00
Anderson's Checkers. Containing complete Instructions and Rules for playing Checkers or Draughts. Illustrated with Diagrams; including all the Standard Games and their Variations, and numerous Problems with their Solutions. By Andrew Anderson. In a certain sense, this is a reprint of Anderson's Celebrated "Second Edition", revised, corrected, and enlarged by Robert M'Culloch; that is, his play when sound is given intact, and where improvements have been shown they have been incorporated, and unsound play eliminated.
Cloth. $1.50
Spayth's American Draught Player; or, The Theory and Practice of the Scientific Game of Checkers. Simplified and Illustrated with Practical Diagrams. Containing upwards of 1700 Games and Positions. By Henry Spayth. Sixth edition, with over three hundred Corrections and Improvements. Containing: The Standard Laws of the Game--Full Instructions--Draught Board Numbered--Names of the Games, and how formed--The "Theory of the Move and its Changes" practically explained and illustrated with Diagrams.
Cloth. $3.00
Dunne's Draughts Player's Guide and Companion. A Guide to the Student and a Companion for the Advanced Player. By Frank Dunne. A thoroughly practical work, containing Instructions for beginners, Standard Rules, the "Move" and its changes, End Games, Openings, Illustrative Games, including the Wyllie-Bryden Match Games, the Losing Game, and some of the finest Problems of the day, with their Solutions. It includes also the Spanish, Italian, Polish, and Turkish varieties of the game; the entire work being profusely illustrated by Diagrams exhibiting the Problems and the critical positions in the progress of the games.
12mo., cloth. $1.50
Mortimer's Chess Players' Pocket-book. A complete and handy Manual of all the known Openings and Gambits, with a thorough analysis of each, its variations and defense,
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Board covers 75 cts.
Cloth $1.00
Modern Whist. A Treatise on the Game of Whist, introducing all the modern methods and usages of the scientific game, mainly derived from the latest works of "Cavendish", the leading authority in all that pertains to the game of Whist.
The most advantageous leads, according to "Cavendish", as well as the system of "American Leads", are given in detail, including a critical analysis, with Tables and Illustrations, of the best play for second and third hands.
This treatise contains all the instruction necessary to make an expert modern Whist player.
Paper covers 25 cts.
Pole on Whist. The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist. By William Pole, F.R.S. This complete and exhaustive Treatise on the Game is in handy form for the pocket, and affords lucid instructions at all stages of the Game for partners to play in combination for their best interests.
20 cts.
American Leads at Whist. A condensed Treatise abridged from the well-known work by "Cavendish", explaining and elucidating the generally accepted modern methods of American Leads as applied to legitimate signaling between partners during the progress of the game. Illustrated with Diagrams.
Vest pocket size 15 cts.
Cinch. A thorough hand-book of the game of Cinch, containing the correct method of playing, and the Laws which govern it; compiled from the best and most reliable authorities. By "Trumps".
10 cts.
Robertson's Guide to the Game of Draughts. Embracing all of the twenty-two well-known Openings, with 3340 Variations, including and correcting all that are given in the leading treatises already published, with about 1200 new and original Variations which appear for the first time in this work, forming a thorough and complete digest and analysis of the Game, with corrections and additions up to the present time. The number of moves aggregate nearly 100,000. Match play by Yates, Wyllie, Barker, and others, will be found regularly classified. A change has been made in the trunks generally, and throughout the whole work there appears much that is fresh and original.
Cloth, 8vo., 320 pages. $3.00
Anderson's Checkers. Containing complete Instructions and Rules for playing Checkers or Draughts. Illustrated with Diagrams; including all the Standard Games and their Variations, and numerous Problems with their Solutions. By Andrew Anderson. In a certain sense, this is a reprint of Anderson's Celebrated "Second Edition", revised, corrected, and enlarged by Robert M'Culloch; that is, his play when sound is given intact, and where improvements have been shown they have been incorporated, and unsound play eliminated.
Cloth. $1.50
Spayth's American Draught Player; or, The Theory and Practice of the Scientific Game of Checkers. Simplified and Illustrated with Practical Diagrams. Containing upwards of 1700 Games and Positions. By Henry Spayth. Sixth edition, with over three hundred Corrections and Improvements. Containing: The Standard Laws of the Game--Full Instructions--Draught Board Numbered--Names of the Games, and how formed--The "Theory of the Move and its Changes" practically explained and illustrated with Diagrams.
Cloth. $3.00
Dunne's Draughts Player's Guide and Companion. A Guide to the Student and a Companion for the Advanced Player. By Frank Dunne. A thoroughly practical work, containing Instructions for beginners, Standard Rules, the "Move" and its changes, End Games, Openings, Illustrative Games, including the Wyllie-Bryden Match Games, the Losing Game, and some of the finest Problems of the day, with their Solutions. It includes also the Spanish, Italian, Polish, and Turkish varieties of the game; the entire work being profusely illustrated by Diagrams exhibiting the Problems and the critical positions in the progress of the games.
12mo., cloth. $1.50
Mortimer's Chess Players' Pocket-book. A complete and handy Manual of all the known Openings and Gambits, with a thorough analysis of each, its variations and defense,
Dick and Fitzgerald Catalog (1866)
Dick's Games of Patience; or, Solitaire with Cards. New and Revised Edition. Containing Sixty-four Games. Illustrated with Fifty explanatory full-page Tableaux. This treatise on Solitaire embraces a number of new and original Games, and all the Games of Patience at present in favor with the most experienced players. Each game is carefully and lucidly described, with the distinctive rules to be observed and hints as to the best means of success in play. The Tableaux furnish efficient aid in rendering the disposition of the cards necessary to each game plain and easily comprehensible. The difficulty usually attending descriptions of intricate games is reduced, as far as possible, by precision in method and terseness of expression in the text, and the illustrations serve to dispel any possible ambiguity that might be unavoidable without their aid. Quarto, 143 pages.
Board covers 75 cts.
Cloth $1.00
Modern Whist. A Treatise on the Game of Whist, introducing all the modern methods and usages of the scientific game, mainly derived from the latest works of "Cavendish", the leading authority in all that pertains to the game of Whist.
The most advantageous leads, according to "Cavendish", as well as the system of "American Leads", are given in detail, including a critical analysis, with Tables and Illustrations, of the best play for second and third hands.
This treatise contains all the instruction necessary to make an expert modern Whist player.
Paper covers 25 cts.
Pole on Whist. The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist. By William Pole, F.R.S. This complete and exhaustive Treatise on the Game is in handy form for the pocket, and affords lucid instructions at all stages of the Game for partners to play in combination for their best interests.
20 cts.
American Leads at Whist. A condensed Treatise abridged from the well-known work by "Cavendish", explaining and elucidating the generally accepted modern methods of American Leads as applied to legitimate signaling between partners during the progress of the game. Illustrated with Diagrams.
Vest pocket size 15 cts.
Cinch. A thorough hand-book of the game of Cinch, containing the correct method of playing, and the Laws which govern it; compiled from the best and most reliable authorities. By "Trumps".
10 cts.
Robertson's Guide to the Game of Draughts. Embracing all of the twenty-two well-known Openings, with 3340 Variations, including and correcting all that are given in the leading treatises already published, with about 1200 new and original Variations which appear for the first time in this work, forming a thorough and complete digest and analysis of the Game, with corrections and additions up to the present time. The number of moves aggregate nearly 100,000. Match play by Yates, Wyllie, Barker, and others, will be found regularly classified. A change has been made in the trunks generally, and throughout the whole work there appears much that is fresh and original.
Cloth, 8vo., 320 pages. $3.00
Anderson's Checkers. Containing complete Instructions and Rules for playing Checkers or Draughts. Illustrated with Diagrams; including all the Standard Games and their Variations, and numerous Problems with their Solutions. By Andrew Anderson. In a certain sense, this is a reprint of Anderson's Celebrated "Second Edition", revised, corrected, and enlarged by Robert M'Culloch; that is, his play when sound is given intact, and where improvements have been shown they have been incorporated, and unsound play eliminated.
Cloth. $1.50
Spayth's American Draught Player; or, The Theory and Practice of the Scientific Game of Checkers. Simplified and Illustrated with Practical Diagrams. Containing upwards of 1700 Games and Positions. By Henry Spayth. Sixth edition, with over three hundred Corrections and Improvements. Containing: The Standard Laws of the Game--Full Instructions--Draught Board Numbered--Names of the Games, and how formed--The "Theory of the Move and its Changes" practically explained and illustrated with Diagrams.
Cloth. $3.00
Dunne's Draughts Player's Guide and Companion. A Guide to the Student and a Companion for the Advanced Player. By Frank Dunne. A thoroughly practical work, containing Instructions for beginners, Standard Rules, the "Move" and its changes, End Games, Openings, Illustrative Games, including the Wyllie-Bryden Match Games, the Losing Game, and some of the finest Problems of the day, with their Solutions. It includes also the Spanish, Italian, Polish, and Turkish varieties of the game; the entire work being profusely illustrated by Diagrams exhibiting the Problems and the critical positions in the progress of the games.
12mo., cloth. $1.50
Mortimer's Chess Players' Pocket-book. A complete and handy Manual of all the known Openings and Gambits, with a thorough analysis of each, its variations and defense,
Board covers 75 cts.
Cloth $1.00
Modern Whist. A Treatise on the Game of Whist, introducing all the modern methods and usages of the scientific game, mainly derived from the latest works of "Cavendish", the leading authority in all that pertains to the game of Whist.
The most advantageous leads, according to "Cavendish", as well as the system of "American Leads", are given in detail, including a critical analysis, with Tables and Illustrations, of the best play for second and third hands.
This treatise contains all the instruction necessary to make an expert modern Whist player.
Paper covers 25 cts.
Pole on Whist. The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist. By William Pole, F.R.S. This complete and exhaustive Treatise on the Game is in handy form for the pocket, and affords lucid instructions at all stages of the Game for partners to play in combination for their best interests.
20 cts.
American Leads at Whist. A condensed Treatise abridged from the well-known work by "Cavendish", explaining and elucidating the generally accepted modern methods of American Leads as applied to legitimate signaling between partners during the progress of the game. Illustrated with Diagrams.
Vest pocket size 15 cts.
Cinch. A thorough hand-book of the game of Cinch, containing the correct method of playing, and the Laws which govern it; compiled from the best and most reliable authorities. By "Trumps".
10 cts.
Robertson's Guide to the Game of Draughts. Embracing all of the twenty-two well-known Openings, with 3340 Variations, including and correcting all that are given in the leading treatises already published, with about 1200 new and original Variations which appear for the first time in this work, forming a thorough and complete digest and analysis of the Game, with corrections and additions up to the present time. The number of moves aggregate nearly 100,000. Match play by Yates, Wyllie, Barker, and others, will be found regularly classified. A change has been made in the trunks generally, and throughout the whole work there appears much that is fresh and original.
Cloth, 8vo., 320 pages. $3.00
Anderson's Checkers. Containing complete Instructions and Rules for playing Checkers or Draughts. Illustrated with Diagrams; including all the Standard Games and their Variations, and numerous Problems with their Solutions. By Andrew Anderson. In a certain sense, this is a reprint of Anderson's Celebrated "Second Edition", revised, corrected, and enlarged by Robert M'Culloch; that is, his play when sound is given intact, and where improvements have been shown they have been incorporated, and unsound play eliminated.
Cloth. $1.50
Spayth's American Draught Player; or, The Theory and Practice of the Scientific Game of Checkers. Simplified and Illustrated with Practical Diagrams. Containing upwards of 1700 Games and Positions. By Henry Spayth. Sixth edition, with over three hundred Corrections and Improvements. Containing: The Standard Laws of the Game--Full Instructions--Draught Board Numbered--Names of the Games, and how formed--The "Theory of the Move and its Changes" practically explained and illustrated with Diagrams.
Cloth. $3.00
Dunne's Draughts Player's Guide and Companion. A Guide to the Student and a Companion for the Advanced Player. By Frank Dunne. A thoroughly practical work, containing Instructions for beginners, Standard Rules, the "Move" and its changes, End Games, Openings, Illustrative Games, including the Wyllie-Bryden Match Games, the Losing Game, and some of the finest Problems of the day, with their Solutions. It includes also the Spanish, Italian, Polish, and Turkish varieties of the game; the entire work being profusely illustrated by Diagrams exhibiting the Problems and the critical positions in the progress of the games.
12mo., cloth. $1.50
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| Publication date: | 02/24/2014 |
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