The Decline and Fall of Whist: An Old Fashioned View of New Fangled Play
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Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. This book is printed in black & white, Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Reprinted in 2022 with the help of original edition published long back 1884. As this book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages. If it is multi vo Resized as per current standards. We expect that you will understand our compulsion with such books. 86 The decline and fall o...
Chapters (84)
- THE DECLINE AND FALL OF WHIST
- CONTENTS.
- PREFACE.
- THE DECLINE AND FALL OF WHIST.
- WOODEN ARRANGEMENT, NO. 1.—THE PETER.
- THE ECHO.
- WOODEN ARRANGEMENT, NO. 2.
- THE MODERN GAME.
- WOODEN ARRANGEMENT, NO. 3.
- WOODEN ARRANGEMENT, NO. 4.
- SOME PILLARS OF THE EDIFICE.
- PILLAR NO. 1.—THE PHILOSOPHY OF WHIST.
- PILLAR NO. 2.—ILLUSTRATIVE WHIST-HANDS.
- PILLAR NO. 3.—DEVELOPMENTS, EXTENSIONS OF PRINCIPLE, AND GENERALIZATIONS.
- WHITTLING AT THE SMALL END OF NOTHING. CONVENTIONS AND ELABORATE RULES FOR EXCEPTIONAL PLAY.
- A WHIST-PLAYER’S WAIL.
- CONCLUSION.
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