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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)
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Billiards
Date: 1897-1915Reference: RET/5/15/4Part of: The Retreat Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Billiards being played in Gentlemen’s Lodge
Date: Late 19th centuryReference: RET 1/8/4/8/1Part of: The Retreat Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Retreat Billiards Competition cards
Date: 1913-1914Reference: RET/5/15/4/1Part of: The Retreat Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Notebook with details of dates, players and scores for Retreat Billiards Handicaps and Championships
Date: 1897-1915Reference: RET/5/15/4/2Part of: The Retreat Archive- Books
- Online
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