The American Hoyle; or, Gentleman's hand-book of games:
The American Hoyle; or, Gentleman's Hand-Book of Games is a New York gaming manual published by Dick & Fitzgerald in 1874, compiled by William Brisbane Dick for gentlemen readers. Its pictures are plain diagrams of chessboard positions with labelled sides, black and white pieces, and numbered squares, useful to a designer for simple board-grid layouts and monochrome piece silhouettes.










