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Le Jeu des Échecs, Amsterdam: 1792. 12°, folding engraved frontispiece (title and frontispiece very lightly spotted, lower corner of last 2 leaves with unobtrusive repair, very lightly browned throughout), later vellum.
PHILIDOR, François André Danician. Analyse du Jeu des Échecs; nouvelle édition, London: P. Elmsley, 1777. 8°, engraved portrait frontispiece, by and after F. Bartolozzi (very lightly browned or spotted throughout), contemporary mottled calf, spine decorated gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges.
First published in 1749 "a new kind of chess book, admirably calculated to appeal to men who knew little about the game, but were prepared to study intelligently to learn more ... The revised version of Analyze, almost double in length, came out in 1777 in London, in both English and French editions ... A handsome engraved portrait of the author was included in many copies. The whole subscription list, with its 280 names ... was one of the most impressive of its kind in the eighteenth century. Apart from a sprinkling of intellectual celebrities, headed by Diderot, Marmontel, Suard, Voltaire and Gibbon, it contained a great roll call of noblemen and politicians" (Richard Eales, Chess. The History of a Game, pp. 115-117)
With another copy of Philidor's work (London, 1777, lacking the portrait) and L. C. de la Bourdonnais' Nouveau Traité du Jeu des Échecs (Paris, 1833). (4)
PHILIDOR, François André Danician. Analyse du Jeu des Échecs; nouvelle édition, London: P. Elmsley, 1777. 8°, engraved portrait frontispiece, by and after F. Bartolozzi (very lightly browned or spotted throughout), contemporary mottled calf, spine decorated gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges.
First published in 1749 "a new kind of chess book, admirably calculated to appeal to men who knew little about the game, but were prepared to study intelligently to learn more ... The revised version of Analyze, almost double in length, came out in 1777 in London, in both English and French editions ... A handsome engraved portrait of the author was included in many copies. The whole subscription list, with its 280 names ... was one of the most impressive of its kind in the eighteenth century. Apart from a sprinkling of intellectual celebrities, headed by Diderot, Marmontel, Suard, Voltaire and Gibbon, it contained a great roll call of noblemen and politicians" (Richard Eales, Chess. The History of a Game, pp. 115-117)
With another copy of Philidor's work (London, 1777, lacking the portrait) and L. C. de la Bourdonnais' Nouveau Traité du Jeu des Échecs (Paris, 1833). (4)
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