PHILIDOR, François-André Danican. Chess Analysed, or instructions by which a perfect knowledge of this noble game may in a short time be acquir'd, London, J. Nourse and P Vaillant, 1750, 8°, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, woodcut ornaments (deep but clean tear to T2, T3 also cleanly torn), contemporary sheep-backed blue and grey boards (upper joints cracked). [VDL Geschichte I, p. 394; Schachlitteratur 2000; KB 486]