A treatise on billiards, with instructions and rules (1779)

[skip100]

Pretty cool stuff :thumbup:

Full album: http://imgur.com/a/FtBr5

 

[Bob Jewett]

Among other things, those rules from 1779 say what to do when a ball hanging on the brink drops in by itself.

Thanks for the link.

 

[book collector]

I would love to see a form of the Fortification Billiards come back.

 

[Chicagoplayer]

Thank you!!!

Pretty cool stuff :thumbup:

Full album: http://imgur.com/a/FtBr5

Thank you thank you thank you skip100!

 

[hang-the-9]

Nice, now we know what equipment and rules to go back to when JB wants to remove all modern equipment if we take away the jump cue LOL

I'm going to print this out, and when bar players start talking about the rules that I need to hit 4 rails or it's a table scratch or hit this ball or that ball, I will take out these rules and tell them "this is the rules I play by".

 

[MisterBanker]

Was John Dew his real or road name?

 

[skip100]

Surprisingly relevant given happenings at DCC!

"The Striker has a right to command his Adversary not to stand facing him, nor near him, so as to annoy or molest him in the Stroke.