Concept
Billiards
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![The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth: the billiard room. Wood engraving by F. Vizetelly, 1860.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0013738/full/600%2C/0/default.jpg)
![An Italian medical student leans casually against a billiard table, polishing his cue. Lithograph by the Perrotta brothers after Colomnca[?].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0011969/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
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An interior of a games room: anthropomorphic figures playing, drinking, and smoking. Colour lithograph.
Reference: 11742i
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A doctor reading the 'Lancet' in a gentleman's club: another member states it is boring, and suggests they play billiards which the doctor would find more boring. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1883.
Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.Date: 1883Reference: 14280i
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Putti deprive a bird of air in a vacuum experiment, one plays at billiards, another plays with magnetised keys, while outside a storm rages: representing physics. Etching by B. Picart, 1729, after himself.
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733.Date: 1729Reference: 25667i- Books
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A treatise on billiards, with instructions and rules for the following games; viz. the white winning game. The white losing game. The Red or Carambole Winning Game. The Red Losing Game. Fortification Billiards, with Rules and Regulations for every Method of playing the Game. Comprehending The original Rules, regulated as they are now played, and more fully explained and enlarged; with Directions for the Conduct of the Players and of the Betters, &c. never before published. To which are added, The Common Odds which are laid on the Hazards, as well as on the Game at Billiards, from One Point being given, to Six, inclusive. By John Dew, a marker, Well known to be experienced in the practical as well as theoretical Parts of Billiards, upwards of Thirty Years.
Dew, John.Date: 1779- Books
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The whole art and mystery of modern gaming fully expos'd and detected; containing an historical account of all the secret abuses practis'd in the games of chance, ...
Date: 1726