Card-Playing.- [?Hawkins (William)], "Gyles Smith". Serious Reflections on the Dangerous Tendency Of the Common Practice of Card-Playing; Especially of the Game of All-Fours, as it hath been Publickly play'd at Oxford..., 24pp., first edition with "price fourpence" at foot of title, title browned, modern boards, W.Owen, [1755] § [Bolton (Robert)] A Letter to a Lady, on Card-Playing on the Lord's Day, first edition, half-title, modern wrappers, for J.Leake at Bath [&] M. Cooper & R. Dodsley, 1748 § Beaufort (James) Hoyle's Games Improved, being practical treatises on...Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Back-gammon, Chess, Billiard and Tennis, first edition, contemporary sheep, a little worn, S.Bladon, 1775, 8vo & 12mo (3)

⁂ The first was written as a response to the increasing popularity of card games, brought about by the numerous publications of Edmond Hoyle. Hawkins was a clergyman, poet, dramatist and the Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Unsurprisingly there are many copies in various Oxford colleges but it is rare in commerce.

The last is a reworking and simplification of Hoyle's guides to games with billiards and tennis (i.e. real tennis) added and which Hoyle had "never touched upon".