GRECO, Gioachino. Le Jeu des Eschets, traduit de l' Italien, Paris, chez Denis Mouchet, 1714, 12°, fifth edition in French, WILLIAM LEWIS'S COPY with his autograph and date, 1815, on title and verso of final leaf (clean tear to L5), contemporary half calf with marbled boards (joints cracked). [VDL Geschichte I, p. 364; Schachlitteratur 989; KB 404; Leon 12]

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GRECO, Gioachino. Le Jeu des Eschets, traduit de l' Italien, Paris, chez Denis Mouchet, 1714, 12°, fifth edition in French, WILLIAM LEWIS'S COPY with his autograph and date, 1815, on title and verso of final leaf (clean tear to L5), contemporary half calf with marbled boards (joints cracked). [VDL Geschichte I, p. 364; Schachlitteratur 989; KB 404; Leon 12]

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PROVENANCE: John Towneley (bookplate); William Lewis (autograph on title and final leaf); J.W. Rimington Wilson (autograph on front pastedown).

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