Welcome to the Edmond Hoyle Home Page!
Edmond Hoyle (1672-1769) was the first English writer on the rules and strategy of popular games. He wrote about whist, backgammon, piquet, chess, quadrille and brag, as well as a book about probability. Books branded as Hoyle have been staples of gaming literature through the twenty-first century.
I have been collecting and studying the writings of Edmond Hoyle for decades. I am writing a book about the publishing history of Hoyle. I have made available three online resources, an online descriptive bibliogrpahy, the blog Edmond Hoyle Gent., and information about my publications.
The online bibliography includes descriptions of more than 300 editions of Hoyle. A user guide for the bibliography is here and a disucssion of conventions used in the bibliography is here.