THE GAME OF CROQUET, ITS LAWS AND REGULATIONS: WITH THE NEW LAWS OF CROQUET ...

This diminutive work includes the 1870 New Laws of Croquet as ratified at the conference of croquet players at the Charing Cross Hotel, London, in January 1870. It also includes chapters on the history of the game, the game and how to play it, and directions for playing the Eglinton Castle Game of Croquet, Tout le Monde Billiards, and Crescente.

12mo. 48pp. Engraved frontispiece showing participants in Eglinton Castle Croquet with the castle in the background. Other delightfully eccentric engravings throughout the text, also diagrams. Original mauve, sand-grained cloth, with gilt vignette of a lady player "taking croquet" to front, covers sl sunned. Circular bookplate of John Roland Abbey mounted inside f/c.

Date

1870?

Publisher

London: "printed for the proprietor"

Author

(CROQUET LAWS)

£140.00 (Code: 1093)

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