An overview of all books about Solitaire, and other resources used to compile the Solitaire Bibliography and the History from a Gambling perspective.
Hoyle up to date, The Official Rules of Card Games – 15th edition – The US Playing Card Company – Copyright 1911 “The Official Rules of Card Games, Hoyle up to date” was published for the first time in 1897. Every several years, it was reprinted with accurate updates of the rules of all well-known … Read more
Solitaire and Patience: Seventy Games to test the Card Player’s Skill and make a lonely hour pass quickly by George Hapgood The first edition of Solitaire and Patience by George Hapgood in 1908 doesn’t mention any of the gambling Solitaires. Neither Klondike (Vegas) nor Canfield is in the book, also not under another name. However, … Read more
Foster’s complete Hoyle; an encyclopedia of games, including all the indoor games played at the present day by R. F. Foster – 1909 R. F. Foster lived in the same time era as Richard Albert Canfield in New York City. He is one of the most authoritative writers on the rules of card games and … Read more
Dick’s Games of Patience by William B. Dick. Published and copyright by Dick and Fitzgerald, New York, USA 1908 Conceivably, this book is the source of all confusion between Canfield and Klondike Solitaire. William B. Dick describes 72 different solitaires including: Oddly, on page 116, we discover the game we nowadays know as Klondike Solitaire. … Read more
Hoyle’s Games – Autograph Edition by the McClure Company, New York, USA 1907 The pictures from this book are taken from a later publication revised by R.F. Foster and published in New York by the L. Burt Company. Edmond Hoyle (1672 – 1769) was a famous writer for his books on the rules and play … Read more
Games of Patience. Illustrated By Numerous Diagrams (second edition) by Tarbart (Thomas de la Rue) London 1905 An updated version from the first edition of “Games of Patience Illustrated By Numerous Diagrams” by Tarbart. As in the first part, the following games, which can be seen as the ancestors of Canfield and Klondike, are included, … Read more
Games of Patience, Illustrated by numerous diagrams by “Tarbart,” Published by Thos. de la Rue & Co LTD, London 1901 Thomas De La Rue’s second book about Solitaire. This time the book is published under his pseudonym Tarbart. A significant improvement is that the second book of Patience games by Thomas de la Rue is … Read more
Dick’s Games of Patience (Second Series) by William B Dick published by Dick and Fitzgerald, New York 1898 The second series of Dick’s Games of Patience was published in 1898, In this edition, 6 new variations of Patience and Solitaire games are added to the 64 games which were already published back in 1883 in … Read more
Foster’s complete Hoyle; an encyclopedia of games, including all the indoor games played at the present day by R.F. Foster, published by the F.A. Stokes company, London, 1897 R. F. (Robert Frederick) Foster (1853 – 1945) lived is one of the most authoritative writers on the rules of card-, dice, and board games. His book … Read more
Patience: A Series of Games with Cards compiled by Mrs. E.D. Cheney. “Let Patience have her perfect work” Boston USA In her book Patience A Series of Games with Cards (third edition, Ednah Dow Cheney is the first English writer who writes about a game called Triangle which is a 2 deck solitaire that can … Read more