David Levy
David Levy's bibliographical musings about the writings of Edmond Hoyle (1679-1769)
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Robert Withy Whist collecting bibliographer's mantra provenance copyright bookseller trade sales bibliography Charles Jones cancel Charles Pigott piracy quadrille issue translation William Payne Thomas Osborne Rimington-Wilson nineteenth century Francis Cogan
9 May 2023
Last month I ended a six-month dry spell, adding two French gaming books to my collection. Each has bibliographical oddities. The first book is L'Arithmétieque du Jeu de Boston...
27 December 2022
A dozen books came my way this year--some condition upgrades, some of interest only to the Hoyle completist, plus a few gems. I'll discuss five of them in the order they were published....
1: The Year in Collecting (part 4)
2 February 2022
The Hoyle I purchase at a German auction in late November has finally arrived. Before taking a close look at it, let's return to the December auction where I bought four lots, fourteen...
1: The Year in Collecting (part 3) Who is William H?
10 January 2022
In part 2, I said that I wasn't ready to write about the bundle of books I bought at a mid-December auction. This essay will discuss just one of them, an extraordinary manuscript on...