[SAUL, Arthur.] The Famous Game of Chesse-play, being a princely exercise wherein the learner may profit more by reading of this small book, then [sic] by playing of a thousand mates, [ed. J. Barbier], London, T. Paine for John Jackson, 1640, sm. 8°, third edition, woodcut illustration of a chess game on title, repeated on B8 verso and C5 recto, G2 recto with illustration of the board showing the position of the pieces (lacking (?) blank A1, title cropped at lower margin with partial loss of imprint, without the table at end called for by Van der Linde), later half calf (extremities rubbed). [VDL Geschichte II, p.27; Schachlitteratur 2267; KB 386; STC 21774]

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[SAUL, Arthur.] The Famous Game of Chesse-play, being a princely exercise wherein the learner may profit more by reading of this small book, then [sic] by playing of a thousand mates, [ed. J. Barbier], London, T. Paine for John Jackson, 1640, sm. 8°, third edition, woodcut illustration of a chess game on title, repeated on B8 verso and C5 recto, G2 recto with illustration of the board showing the position of the pieces (lacking (?) blank A1, title cropped at lower margin with partial loss of imprint, without the table at end called for by Van der Linde), later half calf (extremities rubbed). [VDL Geschichte II, p.27; Schachlitteratur 2267; KB 386; STC 21774]

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PROVENANCE: J. W. Rimington Wilson (inscription on front free endpaper).

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