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Caxton (William)

Jacobus de Cessolis. The Game of Chess. Translated and Printed by William Caxton c.1483. Reproduced in Facsimile from the Copy at Trinity College, Cambridge, with an Introduction by N.F. Blake.

London: The Scolar Press, 1976.,

243.76 €

Forest Books William Laywood

(Grantham, United Kingdom)

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Author
Caxton (William)
Publishers
London: The Scolar Press, 1976.
Keyword
CAXTON EARLY PRINTING INCUNABLES INCUNABULA

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4to (290 x 200 mm), 8 page introduction followed by the facsimile which includes 23 large woodcut illustrations, one of 500 numbered copies, orig. hessian, leather label on spine. The ëGame of Chessí is an English version (first issued in 1474) of text written originally in Latin by Jacobus de Cessolis under the title of ëLiber de Ludo Scaccorumí. This second edition is one of the earliest books to be issued with woodcuts (the first edition has none).
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