~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 cover ~75 cts.~
Cloth ~$1.00~
~Parlor Tricks with Cards.~ Containing explanations of all the
Tricks and Deceptions with playing Cards ever invented. The whole
illustrated and made plain and easy with 70 engravings.
Paper ~30 cts.~
Bound in boards, with cloth back ~50 cts.~
~Modern Whist.~ Containing complete Rules and Instructions for
playing, including the system of American Leads, play of the first,
second, third and fourth hands, management of Trumps, Laws of the
Game, etc. Compiled from the latest works of "Cavendish," the leading
Modern Authority on Whist. By "Trumps."