The Royall Game Of Chesse Play Sometimes The Recreation Of The Late King With Many Of The Nobility

by Gioachino Chess Greco Richard Lovelace

$15,000 · Offered by Liber Antiquus

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. A very good, crisp, complete copy of this rare book, bound in contemporary English sheepskin, ruled in blind, rebacked, boards heavily worn. Metal-cut t.p. rule shaved on two sides, portrait leaf with small repair to lower left corner, just entering the blank corner of the plate mark no loss to image , blank corner of leaf B6 excised no loss , a few tiny repairs to marginal tears. The book includes a woodcut chess board on

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