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MODERN BILLIARDS.
A COMPLETE TEXT-BOOK OF THE GAME,
CONTAINING
PLAIN AND PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS HOW TO PLAY AND ACQUIRE SKILL AT THIS SCIENTIFIC AMUSEMENT.

FULLY ILLUSTRATED

With Plates and Engravings, showing two hundred and fifty Strokes, and the best methods of executing them, as practised by the leading players of the day.

NEW EDITION—NEW CONTEXT—NEW AND COMPLETE RECORDS OF ALL IMPORTANT MATCH AND TOURNAMENT GAMES, AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL, FROM THE EARLIEST TO THE PRESENT TIME.

THE BRUNSWICK-BALKE-COLLENDER CO.,

New York: 31–33 West Thirty-second Street.

Chicago: 263–265 Wabash Av.