4" x 6 ½". 44 pages, 3 page price list of equipment, 6 pages of ads for other books. Limp brown cloth hardcover with gilt decoration of a croquet player on the front board. Illustrated with explanatory engravings and diagrams. Very good with minor rubbing to cover, contents shaken, lightly age-toned else very good, no writing or bookplate present.

Very scarce book on croquet with sections on the history of the game; instruments of the game including mallets, balls, arches, posts and clips; how to play the game; rules; various settings of arches; directions and rules for the new game of juvenile carpet croquet; parlor croquet and more.