Miscellaneous
CROQUET RULES
FELTHAM & CO.
Very rare Printed Booklet 'The Laws of Croquet',
with definitions and rules, illustrated with plans for setting from 6 to 10 hoops and the corresponding order of play and with attractive advertisements for Feltham's croquet, cricket and tennis supplies, 24 sides 8vo. and decorative covers, Feltham & Co., City Steam Works, Barbican, E.C., no date, circa
Item Date: 1880
Background
Joseph Frederick Feltham took out a patent in 1865 for a croquet mallet. Dr David Drazin is the author of A Checklist of Books, Pamphlets and Patents on Croquet and he dates this to circa 1880. Not in the British Library Catalogue
rather worn but perfectly legible
Stock No. 55959