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Billiards
Date: 1897-1915Reference: RET/5/15/4Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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Billiards being played in Gentlemen’s Lodge
Date: Late 19th centuryReference: RET 1/8/4/8/1Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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Retreat Billiards Competition cards
Date: 1913-1914Reference: RET/5/15/4/1Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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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
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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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Hoyle's games improved being practical treatises on whist quadrille piquet chess back-gammon draughts cricket Tennis Quinze Hazard Lansquenet Billiards Faro Rouge & Noir Cribbage Matrimony Cassino Goff or Golf and Connexions In which are contained the method of betting at those games upon equal or advantageous Terms. Revised and corrected by Charles Jones, Esq.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: [1796]- Books
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Hoyle's games improved. Being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, back-gammon, draughts, cricket, Tennis, Quinze, Hazard, Lansquenet, and Billiards. In which are also contained, the method of betting at those games upon equal, or advantageous Terms. Including the laws of the several games, as settled and agreed to at White's and Stapleton's Chocolate-Houses, the Star and Garter, &c. Revised and corrected by Charles Jones Esq.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: [1786]- Books
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Hoyle's games improved; being practical treatises on whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, back-gammon, draughts, cricket, Tennis, Quinze, Hazard, Lansquenet, Billiards, and Goff or Golf: In which are contained, the method of betting at those games upon equal or advantageous Terms; including the laws of each, as settled and agreed to, at Brookes's, White's, D'Aubigny's, the Scavoir Vivre, Miles's, Payne's, and other Fashionable Houses &c. Revised and corrected by Charles Jones, Esq. A new edition enlarged.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: 1790- Books
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Hoyle's games improved: being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist, quadrille, Hiquet, Chess, Back-gammon, Billiards, Cricket, Tennis, Quince, Hazard, and Lansquenet. In which are also contained, the method of betting at those Games upon equal or advantageous Terms. including the laws of the several games, as settled and agreed to at White's and Stapleton's Chocolate Houses. Revised and corrected by Thomas Jones, Esq.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: M,DCC,LXXXII. [1782]- Books
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Hoyle's games improved: being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist, quadrille, piquet, Chess, Back-Cammon, Billiards, Cricket, Tennis, Duinze, Hazard, and Lansquenet. In Which Are Also Contained The Method of Betting at those Games upon equal or advantageous Terms. Including The Laws of the several Games, as settled and agreed to at Whites and Stapleton's Chocolate Houses. Revised and corrected by Thomas Jones, Esq.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Hoyle's games improved consisting of practical treatises on whist quadrille piquet chess back-gammon draughts cricket Tennis Quinze Vingt-Un Hazard Lansquenet Billiards Faro or Pharo Rouge & Noir Cribbage Matrimony Cassino Goff on Golf Connexions Reversis Put All-Fours and Speculation With an essay on game cocks; wherein are comprised calculations for betting upon equal or advantageous Terms. Revised and corrected by Charles Jones Esq.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: [1800]- Books
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The compleat gamester: or, full and easy instructions for playing at above twenty several games upon the cards; with Variety of diverting Fancies and Tricks upon the same, now first added. As likewise at All the Games on the Tables. Together with The Royal Game of Chess, and Billiards. To which is added, The gentleman's diversion in the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, Cock-Fighting, and Bowling.
Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.Date: 1726- Pictures
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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- Archives and manuscripts
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Notebook recording Retreat sports prizes, giving names and value of prizes, for cricket, billiards, golf
Date: 1895-1904Reference: RET/5/15/1/1Part of: The Retreat Archive- Books
The recreations of a physician : the charm and value of English billiards / by Dr. Herbert H. Murphy.
Murphy, Herbert H.Date: 1956- Pictures
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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
A feather in my wig : ovarian cancer cured twelve years and going strong! / by Barbara R. Van Billiard ; foreword by Theodore C. Barton.
Van Billiard, Barbara R., 1929-Date: 1998- Pictures
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A group of man and boys are gathered around a billiard table watching as two people play a game. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 33407i- Books
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Annals of gaming; or complete directions for whist, quadrille, piquet, billiards, ... in which is contained, the method of playing ... Including the laws of the several games, ...
Connoisseur.Date: [1775?]- Books
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The school of recreation, or, The gentlemans tutor : to those most ingenious exercises of hunting, racing, hawking, riding, cock-fighting, fowling, fishing, shooting, bowling, tennis, ringing, billiards / by R.H.
R. H. (Robert Howlett)Date: 1684- Books
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Hoyle's games improved: being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist quadrille piquet back-gammon chess billiards and tennis. With the established rules of game. By James Beaufort, Esq. of Cavendish-Square.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: 1796- Books
Sleep medicine : a comprehensive guide to its development, clinical milestones, and advances in treatment / Sudhansu Chokroverty, Michel Billiard, editors.
Date: [2015]- Books
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Hoyle's games improved: being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist, quadrille, piquet, back-gammon, chess, billiards and tennis. With the established rules of each game. By James Beaufort, Esq. Of Cavendish-Square.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Pictures
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The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth: the billiard room. Wood engraving by F. Vizetelly, 1860.
Vizetelly, Frederick, active 1860.Date: 1860Reference: 39258i- Pictures
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An Italian medical student leans casually against a billiard table, polishing his cue. Lithograph by the Perrotta brothers after Colomnca[?].
Reference: 18029i