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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 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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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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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- 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- 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- Books
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The compleat gamester: in three parts. Viz. I. Full and easy instructions for playing the games chiefly used at court and in the Assembleés, viz. Ombre, Quadrille, Quintille, Picquet, Basset, Faro, and the Royal Game of Chess. II. The true manner of playing the most usual games at cards, viz. Whist, All-Fours, Cribbidge, Put, Lue, Brag, &c. With several diverting Tricks upon the Cards. III. Rules for playing at all the games both within and without the tables; likewise at English and French Billiards. Also the Laws of each Game annexed to prevent Disputes. Written for the Use of the Young Princesses, By Richard Seymour, Esq;
Seymour, Richard, Esq.Date: [1734]- 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
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The compleat gamester: in three parts. Containing, I. The court gamester: Or, Full and Easy Instructions for playing the Games of Ombre, Quadrille, Quintille, Picquet, Basset, Faro, and the Royal Game of Chess. II. The city gamester: Or, True Manner of playing the most usual Games at Cards, viz. Whist, All-Fours, Cribbidge, Put, Lue, Brag, &c. With several diverting Tricks upon the Cards. Also Rules for playing at All the Games both Within and Without the Tables; and at English and French Billiards: With the Laws of each Game annexed, to prevent Disputes. III. The gentleman's diversion: or, the arts of riding, racing, archery, Cocking, and Bowling. Written for the Use of the Young Princesses, by Richard Seymour, Esq;
Seymour, Richard, Esq.Date: 1739- Books
The recreations of a physician : the charm and value of English billiards / by Dr. Herbert H. Murphy.
Murphy, Herbert H.Date: 1956- Books
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The compleat gamester: in three parts. Containing, I. The court gamester: In Three Parts. Containing, I. The Court Gamester: Or, Full and Easy Instructions for playing the Games of Ombre, Quadrille, Quintille, Picquet, Basset, Faro, and the Royal Game of Chess. II. The city gamester: Or, True Manner of playing the most usual Games at Cards, viz. Whist, All-Fours, Cribbidge, Put, Lue, Brag, &c. With several diverting Tricks upon the Cards. Also Rules for playing at all the Games both Within and Without the Tables; and at English and French Billiards: With the Laws of each Game annexed, to prevent Disputes. III. The gentleman's diversion: or, the arts of riding, racing, archery, Cocking, and Bowling. Written for the Use of the Young Princesses, by Richard Seymour, Esq;
Seymour, Richard, Esq.Date: [1750]- Books
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The compleat gamester: in three parts. Containing, I. The court gamester: Or, Full and Easy Instructions for playing the Games of Whist, Ombre, Quadrille, Quintille, Picquet, and the Royal Game of Chess. II. The city gamester: Or, True Manner of playing the most usual Games at Cards viz. All-Fours, Cribbidge, Put, Lue, Brag, Lottery, &c. With several diverting Tricks upon the Cards; also Rules for playing at All the Games both Within and Without the Tables; and at English and French Billiards: With the Laws of each Game annexed, to prevent Disputes. III. The gentleman's diversion: or, the arts of riding, racing, archery, Cocking, and Bowling. First Written for the Use of the Young Princesses, by Richard Seymour, Esq; and now carefully revised, very much enlarged and improved, agreeable to the present Method of playing the several Games, by Charles Johnson, Esq;
Seymour, Richard, Esq.Date: 1754- 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