An Easy Introduction to the Game of Chess; Containing One Hundred Examples of Games, and a Great Variety of Criticalk Situations and Conclusions; Including the Whole of Philidor's Analysis, with Copious Selections from Stamma, the Calabrois, &c. .

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Original boards, rebacked with original spine label. 267 pp., folding frontispiece plate. Edges are untrimmed. Moderate foxing throughout. Early American chess book which attempts to introduce a new system of game notation, illustrated by the plate. The text includes the short essay "The Morals of Chess" by Benjamin Franklin at pages 237-241. The plate, depicting a chess board with squared numbered as a guide for the new system of notation, is very rare. Neither OCLC 3252237 nor the American Antiquarian Society entry (#251824) mention this plate as part of the proper collation of this volume. American Imprints 16032. N° de ref. del artículo b00410

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