CESSOLIS, Jacobus de (fl. late 13th/early 14th century, O.P.). De Ludo Scacchorum, in a metrical Scotch version. Frondes Caducae [The Buke of Ye Chess], printed at the Auchinleck Press [by James Sutherland, for Alexander Boswell], 1818, 4to, presentation copy, front pastedown inscribed "A Gift from Alexander Boswell Esqre -- April 1819", Gothic lettering in red and black (some spotting), contemporary Roxburghe binding of red boards with brown morocco spine titled in gilt (spine rubbed). [VDL Geschichte I, supplement p. 125; Schachlitteratur 488; KB 4227; Lowndes VIII, p. 198, no. 13]

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CESSOLIS, Jacobus de (fl. late 13th/early 14th century, O.P.). De Ludo Scacchorum, in a metrical Scotch version. Frondes Caducae [The Buke of Ye Chess], printed at the Auchinleck Press [by James Sutherland, for Alexander Boswell], 1818, 4to, presentation copy, front pastedown inscribed "A Gift from Alexander Boswell Esqre -- April 1819", Gothic lettering in red and black (some spotting), contemporary Roxburghe binding of red boards with brown morocco spine titled in gilt (spine rubbed). [VDL Geschichte I, supplement p. 125; Schachlitteratur 488; KB 4227; Lowndes VIII, p. 198, no. 13]

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A poem of 2,122 lines, printed by the Auchinleck Press from a unique 16th-century manuscript written by John Sloane, independently of Caxton's version (cf. Murray p. 548). The Auchinleck Press was situated at Auchinleck House, near Cumnock, Dumfrieshire, the seat of Sir Alexander Boswell, son of James Boswell, the biographer of Johnson.

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