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Chess for Beginners, in a series of progressive lessons: Showing the most approved methods of beginning and ending the game
by William Lewis (1787-1870) from the library of Ken Whyld
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
ii+114 pages with illustrations and 24 colored diagrams including frontispiece. Duodecimo (6 1/4" x 5") rebound in green cloth with gilt lettering decoration to spine. From the library of Ken Whyld with provenance from Klittich-Pfankuch Auction House. (Whyld and Ravillous: 1835:2) First edition.
Lewis was a leading chess teacher and author-his most famous pupil was Alexander McDonnell-and for a time he ran chess rooms in St Martin's Lane. In 1819 he operated the chess-playing automaton The Turk when it was exhibited in London. The Lewis Counter Gambit was name for him.
Condition:
Plates following page 78 trimmed with repair
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Chess for Beginners, in a series of progressive lessons: Showing the most approved methods of beginning and ending the game
- Author
- William Lewis (1787-1870) from the library of Ken Whyld
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Chapman & Hall's
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1835
- Pages
- ii+114 pages with illustrations and 24 colored diagrams including frontispiece
- Size
- Duodecimo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Chess, Ajedrez, Schach, Echecs
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