Billiards For Beginners

More than ten years have passed away since my first Treatise on Billiards appeared in the columns of the Field and Country Gentleman’s Newspaper. Many of the remarks then made require revision, and I now submit this little Manual to the reader, in the hope that he will find in it all that is necessary to a good practical knowledge of that best of indoor athletic games, Billiards.

This little Treatise is the first of a series of beautifully printed Practical Handbooks. I t is no small matter of pride and pleasure that I find myself recognised as the modern authority on Billiards and other games for gentlemen.

With this brief Preface, and a bow of grateful acknowledgment to my old and kind friend the Public, I place my new, and greatly improved, Treatise on Billiards in the hands of all lovers of the capital pastime.

RAWDON CRAWLEY.