57 pages, + 7 pages publisher's adverts at end. Title-page printed in red and black. Some vignette playing card illustrations printed in red and black. Selection from "Patience games, Series I and II" (Preface). All edges gilt. Printed publisher's adverts on paste-down endpapers. 68 x 99 mm. Publisher's full brown calf. 'Patience Games' in gilt on upper cover. Edges lightly rubbed particularly on back cover. Not in Bondy, nor Spielmann, nor Welsh. This edition unrecorded. But see OCLC, 1008995089 for 1900 edition. WorldCat locates 4 copies of four other editions worldwide, but none for this scarce 1914 edition. Professor Hoffmann was the pen name of Angelo John Lewis (1839–1919), a successful London barrister and journalist - chosen because practicing law was a serious profession; publishing books on magic, puzzles, and parlour games under his real name would have tarnished his legal reputation. By the start of the Great War, the British middle class had growing disposable income and evening leisure hours leading to a healthy commercial market for home entertainment manuals. Lewis took advantage, pivoting from law to a highly lucrative literary career as a key domestic authority on home amusements.