CAXTON, William. The Game of Chesse... A Fac-simile Reproduction of the First Work Printed in England, from the Copy in the British Museum. Introduction by Vincent Figgins. London: Trübner and Co., 1862.

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CAXTON, William. The Game of Chesse... A Fac-simile Reproduction of the First Work Printed in England, from the Copy in the British Museum. Introduction by Vincent Figgins. London: Trübner and Co., 1862.

4o. Title-page printed in red and black. 13 pp. publisher's advertisement, introductory remarks and list of Caxton's works preceding the facsimile. Original brown hard-grained cloth, gilt-decoration on front cover reproducting one of the woodcuts (spine parted along rear joint).

LIMITED EDITION, one of 80 copies.

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