Dick's Handbook of Cribbage

by William B. Dick

Overview

From the Introduction.

Of the origin of Cribbage we are not aware that anything is known further than that it is essentially an English game.

The game of Cribbage is entirely distinct and different from all other card-games, The method of playing it, and the constant variety of combinations which present themselves, render it one of the most interesting and fascinating games.

To those who have become familiar with, and have mastered the characteristic peculiarities of the game, it offers an attractive pastime, requiring only an occasional moment of transient mental effort, and leaving the players ample opportunity for social intercourse.

The game is played with a full pack of fifty-two cards: Sixty-one points constitutes the game. These points are scored on a Cribbage Board. It consists of two longitudinal divisions, one division for each player's independent score.

Each division contains sixty holes; and at one end, between the divisions, is another hole, called the "game-hole," which is common to both, making each sixty-one points. For convenience in scoring, each division is marked off in subdivisions of five points each.

The board is placed either across or lengthways between the players. It is a matter of indifference how the board is placed; but the count must commence from that end which contains the sixty-first, or game-hole; beginning at the outside edge (A or B), and passing along it to the top, then down the inside row to game.
Four pegs (of which each player uses two), are used for scoring.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781987001662
Publisher:	Dapper Moose Entertainment
Publication date:	10/05/2018
Pages:	70
Sales rank:	805,967
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.17(d)

About the Author

WILLIAM BRISBANE DICK, the senior member of the firm of Dick & Fitzgerald, died on September 5, at Pittsfield, Mass., at the Maplewood Hotel, where he had spent the summer. Mr. Dick was born in Philadelphia, December 15, 1826. He came to New York in 1844 with his uncle, Wesley F. Burgess, who was head of the house of Burgess, Stringer & Co., publishers and booksellers, who had their store at 222 Broadway, under Barnum's American Museum. When Mr. Stringer retired to form the firm of Stringer & Townsend, the old firm changed its name to Burgess & Garrett, which it remained until 1850, when Mr. Burgess sold out his interest to his partners and retired. When Mr. Burgess withdrew Mr. Dick formed a partnership with Mr. Ransom Garrett and Lawrence R. Fitzgerald under the firm name of Garrett, Dick & Fitzgerald. In 1851 Mr. Garrett sold out to his partners and retired from the firm, which then adopted the flame of Dick & Fitzgerald, and removed to 18 Ann Street, in the same building which it occupies to-day. Originally the firm published miscellaneous books by American and foreign authors, the latter in excellent translations, in good editions, at from twenty-five to seventy-five cents a volume. Among its better-known original American books published by the firm we recall Neal’s “Charcoal Sketches,” with illustrations by Darley. They also published a reprint of the London 'Lancet' and kept in stock medical books published by themselves and other houses, as well as foreign papers, periodicals, etc. After the dissolution of the firm of Burgess, Stringer & Co. the firm began making a specialty of books of amusement for in and outdoors, speakers, reciters, books of instruction, etc., many of which bear Mr. W. B. Dick's name as author. In ISSI, when Mr. Fitzgerald died, Mr. Dick assumed sole control of the business. On January 1, 1898, he retired from active work in the firm, which has been conducted since by his son, Harris Brisbane Dick. Mr. Dick was a member of the Lotos, Grolier and Church Clubs, of New York, and of Lafayette Post, G. A. R. His home in New York for years was at the Park Avenue Hotel.