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[GRECO, Gioachino]. The Royall Game of Chesse-Play ... illustrated with almost an hundred gambetts, being the study of Biochimo, London: Henry Herringman, 1656. Small 8° (140 x 90mm). Engraved portrait of Charles I, woodcut title border and diagram. (Frontispiece creased, dampstain to margins throughout, lacks a blank leaf.) Later calf gilt, the upper cover with central gilt motif flanked by the initials 'E G,' within a double roll-tooled border (upper and lower joints broken, extremities rather worn).
Greco, a native of Calabria, first began keeping a manuscript of games when in Rome. However, as neither the manuscript nor the early printed versions of Greco's games were annotated, the principles which the games illustrated were not properly grasped for several generations. cf. Murray pp. 827-30, 840. Wing G1810. Sold not subject to return.
Greco, a native of Calabria, first began keeping a manuscript of games when in Rome. However, as neither the manuscript nor the early printed versions of Greco's games were annotated, the principles which the games illustrated were not properly grasped for several generations. cf. Murray pp. 827-30, 840. Wing G1810. Sold not subject to return.
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