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The principles and practice of whist

Ernest Bergholt · 1902 · Scanned text · Free in the US

105,675 words · about 7 h 24 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Free in the US: this text is in the public domain in the United States; it may still be in copyright elsewhere.

Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1902, public domain asserted for the US only · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/02009812); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)

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Author
Ernest Bergholt
Language
English
Published
1902
Length
105,675 words · about 7 h 24 min
Sections
5 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (5)
  1. Front matter under 1 min
  2. Preface under 1 min
  3. Introduction about 7 h 4 min
  4. Section i. The following cards are liable to be called about 6 min
  5. Index about 14 min
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Front matter

<^7

The Principles and Practice of Whist

By LENNARD LEIGH and ERNEST BERGHOLT

Preface

PAGES

The literature of Whist — Various methods of treatment — The scheme of the present work — Obituary remarks regarding Pole, "Cavendish" and Drayson — The opinion of the last-named as to this book — Acknowledgment of the services of Colonel Lowsley and Mr. Whitfeld — Personal note by Mr. Leigh. ix — xiii

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