An Easy Guide to the Game of Chess with a Number of Games Remarkable Solutions
An Easy Guide to the Game of Chess with a Number of Games Remarkable Solutions
An Easy Guide to the Game of Chess with a Number of Games Remarkable Solutions
An Easy Guide to the Game of Chess with a Number of Games Remarkable Solutions
An Easy Guide to the Game of Chess with a Number of Games Remarkable Solutions
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An Easy Guide to the Game of Chess with a Number of Games Remarkable Solutions

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Author: Charles Check from the library of David Delucia

Year: 1818

Publisher: W Simpkin and R Marshall

Place: London

Description:

[8]+82 pages with engraved frontispiece, two title pages and appendix. Duodecimo (5 1/4" x 3 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers with a backstrip. ( Whyld:1818:2) First edition.

Preface: For the basis of my performance I have had recourse to a German work, that appeared to me of considerable value, and I have enriched it both from French and English publications, as well as with the addition of some original matter. The BL catalogue suggests that Charles Check may be a pseudonym.

Condition:

David DeLucia's book plate to front pastedown. Spine not original to the book, stains to page 30 at heal corner, edge wear else good of a scare item.