GRECO, Gioachino. The Royal Game of Chesse-Play ... illustrated with almost a hundred gambetts, London: for Henry Herringman, 1656, 8°, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece portrait of Charles II, woodcut title border, final leaf K1 present (title laid down and slightly cropped at lower margin, some dampstaining at end), 19th-century green calf (a little rubbed at extremities). [Wing G1810 VDL Geschichte I, p. 362; Schachlitteratur 267]

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GRECO, Gioachino. The Royal Game of Chesse-Play ... illustrated with almost a hundred gambetts, London: for Henry Herringman, 1656, 8°, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece portrait of Charles II, woodcut title border, final leaf K1 present (title laid down and slightly cropped at lower margin, some dampstaining at end), 19th-century green calf (a little rubbed at extremities). [Wing G1810 VDL Geschichte I, p. 362; Schachlitteratur 267]

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