AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY AND STUDY OF CHESS... To Which is Added the Analysis of Chess of André Danican Philidor the Whole Arranged by an Amateur
by PRUEN Thomas
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Cheltenham: Printed by H. Ruff for Dwyer Robison and Hurst et al., 1804. 1st edn. 8vo (8½ x 5¼ ins). Contemporary gilt lettered calf (poor - upper board detached and rubbed and worn at edges - in protective cover). Pp. xii + 314, illus with engraved frontispiece (previous owner's neat inscription in contemporary hand on recto of frontis).
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- AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY AND STUDY OF CHESS... To Which is Added the Analysis of Chess of André Danican Philidor the Whole Arranged by an Amateur
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- PRUEN Thomas
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- Cheltenham: Printed by H. Ruff for Dwyer Robison and Hurst et al., 1804
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