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| Title: | A TREATISE ON | BILLIARDS, | WITH | INSTRUCTIONS and RULES | For the following Games; viz. | [six lines to left of double rule] The White Winning | Game. | The White Loſing | Game. | The Red or Carambole | Winning Game. | [six lines to right of double rule] The Red Loſing Game. | Fortification Billiards, | with Rules and Re-|gulations 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 Ha-|zards, 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. | [oxford rule] | LONDON: | Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington, and J. Wilkie, St. | Paul’s Church-Yard; T. Payne, and Son, St. Martin’s-|Lane; S. Crowder, and R. Baldwin, Pater-noſter-|Row; T. Lowndes, in Fleet-Street; T. Caslon, and | B. Law, Avemary-Lane; F. Newbery, Ludgate-|Street; W. Domville, Royal-Exchange; W. Davis, | Piccadilly; J. Ridley, St. James’s Street; and W. | Goldsmith, Pater-noſter-Row. 1779. | {PRICE ONE SHILLING.} |
| Collation: | 12o: A–B12 C2 [$½ signed]; 26 leaves, pp. [1–3] 4–52 |
| Contents: | Signature (Page) Reference | Contents | Signature (Page) Reference | Running Titles |
| A1r (1) | title | |||
| A1v (2) | blank | |||
| A2r–C2v (3–52) | ‘[oxford rule] | A | TREATISE | ON | BILLIARDS. | [...]’ | A2v–A7r (4–13) | ‘The Game of BILLIARDS. | Rules for the White Winning Game.’ | |
| A7v–A8r (14–15) | ‘The Game of BILLIARDS. | Rules for the White Losing Game.’ | |||
| A8v–A12r (16–23) | ‘The Game of BILLIARDS. | Carambole Winning Game.’ | |||
| A12v–B3r (24–29) | ‘The Game of BILLIARDS. | Carambole Losing Game.’ | |||
| B3v–B8v (30–40) | ‘FORTIFICATION BILLIARDS.’ | |||
| C2v (52) | ‘[...] | The Binder is to put the Plate after | Page 34. | FINIS.’ | B9r–C2v (41–52) | ‘ODDS AT BILLIARDS.’ |
| Plates: | after B5v(34) copperplate: bifolium with engravings Plan of Fortification Billiards and Perspective View of Fortification Billiards. |
| Catchwords: | A5r(9) XXX [XXXI.] |
| Press Figures: | A8r(i):6; B7r(o):1 |
| Publisher: | J. F. and C. Rivington, John Wilkie, T. Payne and Son, Stanley Crowder, Robert Baldwin I, Thomas Lowndes, Thomas Caslon, Bedwell Law, Francis Newbery, William Domville, William Davis, James Ridley, William Goldsmith |
| Advertisements: | 1779-11-13 London Chronicle: "This day was published, a new edition, in 12mo, price 3s. only...Notes are given to illustrate the games by Hoyle; and those marked * are additional improvements...N. B. Mr. Dew's Treatise on Billiards may be had separate, price 1s. sewed." |
| Price: | 1s. (title, advertisement) |
| References: | ESTC T199877 |
| Copies Seen: | L [C.106.b.26] (ECCO) |
| Other Copies: | CLU-SC [Delta GV891.D51t]; CSmH [345985]; DeWint [GV891.D51] |