1918-1920 Selected Patience Games Royal Auction Bridge A Systematic Exposition of the Elements of the Game, Under the New Code of Laws of 1914, as approved and adopted by the Portland Club: Fourth Edition: Entirely re-written, with Special Chapter on Auction Whist.

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Illustrated, Scarce

Two small volumes on card games in the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps. All edges gilt. 5 full-page colour diagrams to Selected Patience Games and further colour diagrams accompanying the text. A fourth edition of Royal Auction Bridge (1920), with a chapter on Auction Whist, by Ernest Bergholt, and a 1918 edition of Selected Patience Games by the prolific and influential magic author and translator Angelo John Lewis (1839–1919), whose pseudonym was Professor Hoffmann. 7 pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear of Selected Patience Games and 8 pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear of Royal Auction Bridge.