Chess
Collection of chess treatises, 19th century
Estimate: £500 - £800
Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
[Franklin, Benjamin, contributor] Twiss, Richard. Chess. London: G. G. J. & J. Robinson, 1787. First edition (with ‘The Morals of Chess by Dr. Franklin’ at pp. 141-8), volume 1 only of 2), 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked to style, with endpapers renewed, repair to title-page;
Peake, Alfred S. The Irish Chess Chronicle. [Dublin: McGee], 1887. 16 monthly numbers, wire-stitched as issued, 12mo, uncommon;
[Chess]. Ludus Scacchiae: Chesse-play … Translated out of the Italian into the English Tongue. Containing also therein, a prety [sic] and pleasant Poeme of a whole Game played at Chesse. Written by G. B. London: H. Jackson, 1597. [Bound with:] The Italian Taylor and his Boy. By Robert Armin. London: for T. P., 1609. [Both works:] [London:] printed by Harding & Wright, c.1810. 2 works in 1 volume, second editions of both works, 4to, contemporary tan calf by Mathews;
Sarratt, J. H. A New Treatise on the Game of Chess. London: R. P. Moore, 1821. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, modern leather, half-titles;
Walker, George. The Philidorian; a Magazine of Chess, and Other Scientific Games. London: G. Walker and Son, 1838. First edition, 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, half-title, lacking rear free endpaper;
Lewis, William. Elements of the Game of Chess. London: Longman [and others], 1822. First edition, 8vo, modern leather;
and 4 others similar including a copy of The Royall Game of Chesse-Play, London: Henry Herringman, 1656, with frontispiece and title-page in photographic facsimile, early book-label of one Beale Post of Trinity Cambridge, ownership inscription of William Post dated 1764 (11)