CESSOLIS, Jacobus de (fl. late 13th/early 14th century, O.P.) De Ludo Scachorum, in English. CAXTON, William. The Game of the Chesse, reproduced in facsimile from a copy in the British Museum, London, John Russell Smith, 1860, 4°, illustrations, contemporary half morocco (spine worn) [VDL Geschichte I, supplement p. 125; Schachlitteratur 458; KB 4229]; and a later edition (1862) of the same facsimile.

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CESSOLIS, Jacobus de (fl. late 13th/early 14th century, O.P.) De Ludo Scachorum, in English. CAXTON, William. The Game of the Chesse, reproduced in facsimile from a copy in the British Museum, London, John Russell Smith, 1860, 4°, illustrations, contemporary half morocco (spine worn) [VDL Geschichte I, supplement p. 125; Schachlitteratur 458; KB 4229]; and a later edition (1862) of the same facsimile.
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Translated from Vignay's French version by William Caxton in 1474, and printed shortly after at Bruges, and again, with the addition of 24 woodcuts, at London, c. 1480 (cf. Murray p. 547).

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