Books on Various Games & Pastimes (5). Reese, T.W. New Zealand Cricket 1914-1933. Volume II. Auckland, Whitcombe & Tombs, 1936. Several Plates, some folding, 594pp., 8vo., publisher's red cloth, no d.w. a very good copy. Volume I, 1841-1914 was published in 1927; Cadogan Lady Adelaide. Illustrated Games of Patience. Fifth Edition. London, Sampson, Low [&c.], 1885. 24 colour litho plates of card layouts, (8),48pp., 4to., publisher's green cloth bevelled boards with coloured card motifs, touch of wear to tips but a very good copy externally and internally; Cook, William. Champion. Billiards. Edited by A.G.Payne. London, Frederick Warne, n.d. [1884?] Portrait frontis, 7 plates, 40 coloured diagrams, xxxii,332pp., advertisement endpapers and 64pp.price list and illustrated catalogue for Burroughes and Watts dated 1885. 8vo., publisher's green cloth gilt with vignette of players on front board. 'Champion' is repeated under the author's name. Tiny hole (nail?) in spine otherwise a very good copy.'The Warne Imprint As Publisher Is Unusual. Usually It Is Burroughes and Watts; Robert-Houdin. Card-Sharpers. Their Tricks Exposed, Or, the Art of Always Winning. Translated From the French...By Joseph Foster. London, Spencer Blackett, 1891. Numerous Diagrams, Viii,280pp., 8vo., Pictorial Cloth a Little Marked. Internally Very Good; Strutt, Joseph. the Sports and Pastimes of the People of England; Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, & Pompous Spectacles From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. Illustrated By One Hundred and Forty Engravings in Which Are Represented Most of the Popular Diversions; Selected From Ancient Paintings. a New Edition, with a Copious Index, By William Hone.London, Thomas Tegg, 1845.136 Numbered Wood-Engravings in Text, All with Original Hand-Colouring, Lxvii,(1),420pp., Untrimmed, Large 8vo., Publisher's Blind-Stamped Cloth, Sometime Rebacked with Slightly Chipped Original Gilt-Lettered Spine Laid Over and Later Endpapers. Small Bookplate of a Private Library [Ingleton] on Front Pastedown. Inscribed on the Titlepage 'Marcus David Logan From His Sincere Friend, the Great Grandson of the Author - August 1855.' First published in 1801, this is a reprint of the 1830 Third Edition and one of a very small number with the illustrations hand-coloured.