THE GAME OF BILLIARDS. SCIENTIFICALLY EXPLAINED, AND PRACTICALLY SET FORTH, IN A SERIES OF NOVEL AND EXTRAORDINARY STROKES; AND ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS APPROPRIATE DIAGRAMS. TO WHICH IS ADDED THE RULES AND REGULATIONS WHICH GOVERN THE NUMEROUS GAMES AS THEY ARE PLAYED AT THE PRESENT DAY IN ALL THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE

Kentfield, Edwin

Published by Smith Elder & Co., London, 1839

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Folio, in original cloth binding, rebacked. Gilt-lettered title on front cover and spine. Folding frontis [in facsimile], plus 93 plates [plates 36 and 56 supplied in facsimile]. [10], 48, Plates 1-93 [printed on rectos only], [1 - engraved advertisement for John Thurston, Billiard Table Manufacturer] pp. Except as noted, Very Good. Kentfield was the King of Billiards in his day, contemporary observers noting his "extraordinary performances" and his revolutionary improvements to the game. [Broadfoot, Major W.: BILLIARDS, London: 1896, p.13, accessed at Google Books.] This is the first edition of his masterwork, printed because "all the works published on Billiards, twenty or thirty years ago, are now comparatively useless, in consequence of the many alterations and improvements that have been successively introduced, and which have so greatly contributed to the state of perfection to which this noble amusement has at length arrived." OCLC records only a few locations, some of which are apparently facsimiles. Seller Inventory # 24029

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Title: THE GAME OF BILLIARDS. SCIENTIFICALLY ...

Publisher: Smith Elder & Co., London

Publication Date: 1839

Binding: Hardcover