Crawley, Captain [ Pardon, George Frederick ] & Cook, W — The Billard Book

Ward Lock & Co, Warwick House, Dorset Buildings, Salisbury Square 1877 new edition, enlarged & rivised. Decorated cloth, VG. xvi+130-133-344pp+32pp publishers adverts, 54pp b/w plates, many woodcut illustrations, sporadic foxing, stain to the upper board & similar stain to the rear endpaper, would seem to lack a single leaf ( pp 131&132 ) as the pagination jumps, no half title, otherwise a soild exampe of a book which is usually recased. Much enlarged edition of Pardon's uncommon book on Billiards. The first edition was published in 1866. George Frederick Pardon [ 1824 - 1884 ] English journalist and writer.