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Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2016
ISBN 10: 1333844034ISBN 13: 9781333844035
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
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Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. | Seiten: 402 | Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: London Printed for William Miller, 1808
Anbieter: Shapero Rare Books, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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First edition, 2 vols; 8vo (22 x 14 cm); with half-titles, final leaf of ads. to vol. 2; contemporary tree calf, gilt spine in compartments, contrasting black morocco title-pieces, joints cracked but holding, minor staining to top for-edge margin of vol. 1, occasional offsetting; xxxi, [1], 271, [1]; [4], 349, [3]pp. misc23 A handsome two-volume set of the first edition of Jacob Henry Sarratt's (d.1819) first chess manual, A Treatise on the Games of Chess. Sarratt learned much from Verdoni, a disciple of the great French master François-André Danican Philidor who spent his final years in exile in London before his death in 1795. After Verdoni's death in 1804, Sarratt became the leading chess player in England assuming the title 'Professor of Chess'. Under his influence the London Chess Club adopted the continental rule that a game ending in a stalemate was a draw, rather than a win for the player stalemated as hitherto in England (ODNB). The book is dedicated to the Jewish merchant Abraham Samuda, with an important preface by the author giving a short history of the game from Damiano to the Dutch chess master Elias Stein. Simpson p.36.
Verlag: LondonPrinted for T. Boosey ., 1813
Anbieter: Robert Frew Ltd. ABA ILAB, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Buch Erstausgabe
FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (21 x 13.5 cm). ppxviii+382+[2, publishers adverts]. Full contemporary calf rebacked, spine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt, sides with decorative gilt border. 2 black & white engravings illustrating chess-boards. Ex libris Adam Smith Annand with his armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Binding scuffed, occasional light spotting (heavier to prelims and endpapers), generally a good solid copy. Jacob Henry Sarratt (1772 - 6 November 1819) was one of the top English chess players of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Sarratt was renowned as a player and author and adopted the title "Professor of Chess". He was the first professional player to teach chess in England. He introduced into England the chess rule that a stalemate is a draw, which was commonly used on the continent of Europe. He coined with his works of 1813 and 1821 the term Muzio Gambit. He was a pupil of Verdoni and later the teacher of William Lewis and Peter Unger Williams. Includes translations of Questo libro e da imparare giocare a schachi e de le partite (1512), by Damiano, Libro de la invencion liberal y arte del juego del axedrez (1561) by Lopez, and Il puttino (1634), by Salvio. (Whyld and Ravilious, 1813:2).