An overview of all articles, and other resources used to compile the Solitaire Bibliography and the history of solitaire from a Gambling perspective.
Solitary Games, The Spectator, Volume 48, Part 1, London, United Kingdom In this article, the writer mainly responds to the article from W. Pole a year earlier “Games at Cards for One Player, published in the November edition of the Macmillan’s Magazine“ The following interesting quote from this article shows that there were already many … Read more
Games at Cards for One Player by W. Pole, Macmillan’s Magazine, Volume 31 1874 W. Pole was, at the time he lived, a well-renowned writer of books about card games. He was most famous for his book “The Philosophy of Whist” In the November edition of the Macmillan’s Magazine he wrote a very interesting article … Read more