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A Selection of Games At Chess, Actually Played by Philidor and His Contemporaries: Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts, With Notes and Additions
by George Walker
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
London: Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, 1835. Hardcover. First Edition, First Impression. 4.25 x 7in. xvi. 110pp. [24pp., ads]. Publisher's cloth boards with paper and calf title labels. VERY GOOD. Shows the extremities somewhat shelf rubbed, spine lightly toned, spine label somewhat chipped, boards lightly handled, former owner mark at the front paste-down, former owner name of the period neatly on the title page, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text and diagrams are clean and exceptionally unmarked, and the boards remain distinct. As pictured.
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- North Books: Used & Rare
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29776
- Title
- A Selection of Games At Chess, Actually Played by Philidor and His Contemporaries: Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts, With Notes and Additions
- Author
- George Walker
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1835
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
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