[viii]+254+[2 pages publisher's advertisements] with foldout frontispiece. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 4 1/2") rebound in brown cloth with original label to spine. Contains Sir William Jones' poem "Cassia: or The Game of Chess, A Poem"; based upon Pratt's "Studies of Chess". (Van der Linde: 613) Fith English edition. This was first published in London by Ogilvie in 1802 (2 volumes). First published in America in 1817 and reprinted in 1824. The name of the compiler has never been established. The miscellaneous collection of anecdotes, essays and poems at the end is not without interest. The openings and games are all in the numerical notation and no diagrams are given. (Hagedorn: 55p) Condition: Rebound in brown cloth, new end papers and paste downs, else very good.

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An Easy Introduction to the Game of Chess; containing One Hundred Examples of Games, and a Great Variety of Critical Situations and Conclusions; including the work of Philidor

Editor

Baldwin Craddock and Joy, London

Fecha de publicaci�n

1820

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Hardcover

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Very Good

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