The hand-book of games : comprising new or carefully revised treatises on whist, piquet, ecarté, lansquenet, boston, quadrille, cribbage, and other card games : faro, rouge et noir, hazard, roulette : backgammon, draughts : billiards, bagatelle, American bowls, etc. etc.
The Hand-Book of Games, edited by Henry G. Bohn and printed by Harrison & Sons in London in 1850, is a compendium of card, gaming-table, and cue-sport rules for a general English readership. Its pictures are plain line diagrams of billiard-table layouts with numbered balls, dashed and solid paths, and cushion angles, offering a designer clean schematic plate geometry and a sparse, lettered vocabulary for technical diagrams.
