RULE BOOKLETS FOR CARD GAMES
1872The Pocket Guide to SPOIL-FIVE - Cavendish / De La Rue
1872 SPOIL-FIVE
2nd edition.
Twenty-five or Spoil-Five, is the Irish national card game, which also underlies the Canadian game of Forty-fives.
It is supposed to be of great antiquity, and widely believed to have originated in Ireland, although “its venerable ancestor”, Maw, of which James I of England was very fond, is a Scottish game. It is scarce.
Twenty pages including front and back cover
Condition – Very good – strong gold edging – no sign of use.
REF: PCB201
£ 65
1874 - The Pocket Guide to ECARTE - Cavendish / De La Rue
1875 ECARTE
Early booklet for this game – Goodall’s booklet was not published until c1895.
Twenty pages including front and back cover.
Condition – Very good – strong gold edging – no sign of use
REF: PCB202
£ 20
1878- The Pocket Guide to Draughts and Polish Draughts - Cavendish / De la Rue
1878 DRAUGHTS
1st Edition
Twenty pages including front and back cover.
A very rare booklet that we can find little reference to – presumably first (and only edition) edition by Henry Jones, who wrote about 20 booklets in the period 1865 to 1880.
Condition – Very good – strong gold edging – no sign of use.
REF: PCB205
£ 95
1878 - The Pocket Guide to EURCHE - Cavendish / De La Rue
1878 EUCHRE
2nd Edition
Twenty pages including front and back cover.
Condition – Very good – strong gold edging – no sign of use
REF: PCB207
£ 25
1886 - The Pocket Guide to Dominoes - Cavendish / De la Rue
1880 DOMINOES
1st Edition
Twenty-eight pages including front and back cover – (the right of translation is reserved).
A rare booklet- with little reference written by Henry Jones (Cavendish) in the 1870s.
Condition – A couple on non-distracting marks on the cover otherwise very good – gold edging – very strong looks unused.
REF: PCB209
Sold / 091
1899 - The Pocket Guide to Bridge (As Played at the Portland and other Clubs) - BOAZ -2nd Edition
1899 BRIDGE – BOAZ
2nd Edition
Twenty pages including front and back cover.
Second edition of this booklet, by Henry Jones, who wrote about 20 booklets in the period 1865 to 1880.
Condition – Very good – strong gold edging – no sign of use
REF: PCB221
£ 50
1878- The Pocket Guide to BACKGAMMON and Russian Backgammon - Cavendish / De la Rue
1878 BACKGAMMON
1st Edition
Twenty eight pages including front and back cover – 4 pages of adverts for Christmas Cards and Calendars.
Rare – by Henry Jones, who wrote about 20 booklets in the period 1865 to 1880.
Condition – Very good – strong gold edging – no sign of use
REF: PCB218
£ 95
1885 - The Game of SOLO WHIIST by Captain Crawley / Goodall
1885 SOLO WHIST
1st Edition
Twent two pages including front and back cover
Condition – Very good – strong gold edging – no sign of use
REF: PCB221
£ 25
1870 - The Pocket Guide to Calabrasella / De La Rue - 2nd Edition
1870 CALBRASELLA
This booklet consists of sixteen pages including front and back cover.
Rare – by Henry Jones
This game is Italain – also known as Terziglio. It is a point-trick game with bidding, requiring a fair amount of skill. It is notable for the slightly unusual card order (threes high) and the fact that there are never any trumps.
Condition – Cover couple of small grubby marks otherwise very good – strong gold edging – no sign of use
REF: PCB225
£ 55
c1870 - The Game of FOOSE
GAME OF FOOSE
Printed by Virtue & Co, Printers, City Road, London
Twelve pages
This is the European game of Fuss (also known Französische Fuss or Franzefuss),
repackaged with an Anglicised name for the English speaking market.
It is a Jass game an ancestor of the Austrian game.
The company was active throghout the 1800 with a number of different names Virtue & Co being one of the earliest. It seemed be become a limited company in 1875, so we assume this was printed pror to that date and probably c1865/70
REF: PCB230
£ 35
1909 - Poker / Three-Card Loo - Goodall
1909 POKER
A Rare Booklet on Poker – By A B Lougher – edited by Rawdon Crawley – “to which is added a chpter on Three-card Loo”
It seems that A.B. Lougher and Lieut. Bougher were both Charles Frederick Pardon, also known as Rawdon Crawley, Bt. This was a son of George Frederick Pardon (ref – Tom Sayer – rulebooklets.wordpress.com)
Although a much later game – it sill appear to be very rare.
28 pages – exluding the cover – produced by
The Mussun Book Cc Ltd Toronto with Chas Goodall & Son ltd.
Condition – Light use – no damage
REF: PCB242
£ 55
1918 - A Compedium of Poker - Goodall
1918 – COMPENDIUMOF POKER
A Compedium of Poker with the latest American Code of Laws – by Ernest Bergholt.
Another booklet rarely seen for sale.
42 pages including cover.
Condition – Light use – no damage
REF: PCB243
£ 45
