Revised edition, expanded from the 2000 first edition. The definitive bibliography on the game of croquet. This scholarly work contains specialists' books and pamphlets starting in the earliest times and going to 1997. The literature of croquet has long been of interest to scholars and collectors, but until now, no systematic bibliography of this subject has been published. There are over 1,700 entries covering 633 titles, 918 subsequent editions and variants, and 181 patent documents including works in English, French, German, Italian, Swedish, Afrikaans, Chinese, and Japanese. Also with a new classified index of titles, and several hundred thumbnail illustrations, mostly in color. With excellent search facilities as it is produced on CD-Rom.