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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Ludus scacchiæ: chesse-play. Printed at London by H. Iackson, dwelling beneath the conduite in Fleet-Street. 1597 (OCoLC)874738887 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Damiano, de Odemira; Marco Girolamo Vida; James Rowbothum; Claude Gruget; G Blochimo |
OCLC Number: | 11585725 |
Notes: | Title within ornamental border. Ascribed by Brunet, Graesse, and Lowndes to G. Blochimo. The date of this reprint has been variously cited as 1806, 1809, and 1810. According to Brit. mus. Catalogue, pt. [1] is merely an abridgment of Rowbothum's translation of Damiano da Odemira's "Libro da imparare giocare a scachi", published at London, 1562, under the title "The pleasaunt and wittie play of te cheasts renewed ... Lately translated out of Italien into Frenche [by Claude Gruget] and now set forth in Englische." Part 2 is a free rendering of Marco Girolamo Vida's poem "Scacchia ludus". cf. Linde, Gesch. u. lit. d. schachspiels, vol. II, p. 268. |
Description: | 1 preliminary leaf, [14], 30, [2] pages diagram 27 cm |
Contents: | [pt. 1] To the reader greeting (signed: G.B.) The chesseplay (signed: G.B.)--[pt. 2.] Scacchia lvdvs: chesse play (signed: W. [G.] B.) To the reader (signed: G.B.). |
Responsibility: | translated out of the Italian into the English tongue. Containing also therein, a prety and pleasant poeme of a whole game played at chesse. Written by G.B. Printed at London by H. Iackson, dwelling beneath the conduite in Fleet-Street. 1597. |
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