Cavendish, the pen name of Henry Jones, set out to explain not merely the conventions of whist but the reasons behind them. After the club code of laws and the rules for scoring, cutting and forming a table, he lays down the principles of leading, following and trump play, and illustrates them with complete hands played through card by card.
The standard Victorian authority on whist and an ancestor of every bridge manual, for card players and historians of games. Download the free EPUB.