Game and Playe of the Chesse - A Verbatim Reprint of the First Edition, 1474 by William Caxton
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(_Scandinavian rhyming translation_.) De ludo Scacchorum seu de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium ac popularium. Poema suecanum vetustum. e codice manuscripto biblioth. Reg. Universitatis Havn. nunc primum editum. quod consensu ampl. ord. phil. Lund. p.p. Ernestus Rietz et Augustus Ludovicus Sjöberg, scanus in Academia Carolina die vi Decembris MDCCCXLVIII. Lundæ, Typis Berlingianis. MDCCCXLVIII. 8vo. Fourteen dissertations, of which there is a set in the Jena Library. There is a MS. of this Scandinavian poetical version of Cessolis dated 1492, and another dated 1492 in the Kopenhagen University Library. (_Linde_.) (_English translation._) The Game and Playe of the Chesse. folio. E. P. The Game and Playe of the Chesse. Explicit per Caxton. folio. The Game at Chesse, a metaphorical Discourse shewing the present Estate of this Kingdome. London. 1643, 4to. This title is given by Lowndes, but examination only would show whether it is in any way an imitation of Caxton. |
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