Billiards

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AKA

The ancestor of modern Pool. Originally, this was more or less Table Croquet.

Games in *The Academy of Armory* (Transcription) -- Transcription by Justin du Coeur and Jeff Singman of the relevant sections from this 1688 book on heraldry, which happens to talk a lot about a lot of stuff. (more)
Billiards on Traditional Games (History) -- A quick but good overview of the evolution of this family of games. (more)
Academie Universelle des Jeux (1718) (Facsimile) -- An out-of-period but still very interesting edition of one of the earliest serious encyclopedias of games. (French) (more)