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Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

ii+114 pages with illustrations and 24 colored diagrams including frontispiece. Duodecimo (6 1/4" x 5") rebound in green cloth with gilt lettering decoration to spine. From the library of Ken Whyld with provenance from Klittich-Pfankuch Auction House. (Whyld and Ravillous: 1835:2) First edition.
Lewis was a leading chess teacher and author-his most famous pupil was Alexander McDonnell-and for a time he ran chess rooms in St Martin's Lane. In 1819 he operated the chess-playing automaton The Turk when it was exhibited in London. The Lewis Counter Gambit was name for him.Condition:Plates following page 78 trimmed with repair

viii+155 pages with colored diagrams including frontispiece. Duodecimo (6 1/4" x 5") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering decoration to spine and front cover. (Whyld: 1846:7) Third edition, revised.Lewis (1787-1850) a distinguished chess player and the author of numerous books on the subject. Each of the handsome plates depicts a chess board within an elaborate frame, all printed in green on white, with the opposing pieces printed in red and dark blue. This book may be “the first use of color printing in a nineteenth century book, in Britain, for a practical rather than an aesthetic purpose" Ruari McLean, VBDCP, p. 35; VPBBCL, p. 6.James J. Barrett wrote a few chess columns in the Buffalo area. In a chess magazine beginning on page 1 of the March 1948 Chess Review: he wrote a letter of complaint about the magazine's choice of front-cover photographs. He played a substantial role in Paul Morphy The Pride and Sorrow of Chess by David Lawson (New York, 1976), and in the… Read More

Chapman and Hall 1835. Duodecimo, green leather boards, gilt & black rule to spine, gilt lettering & rule to front board, aeg, marbled eps, frontispiece, iii + 149pp, illus, VG (light bruising & moderate scuffing with surface loss to spine & board edges, moderate chafing & staining to boards, boards sl warped, light to moderate tanning to prelims & terminals, prev. owner's name in pencil to prelims, sl foxing & soiling to pages throughout)

London: Chapman and Hall, 1835. 1st. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover, black cloth with embossed floral design with gilt vignette of a mounted knight on front. 114 pages with illustrations and 24 colored diagrams including frontispiece. Lewis was a leading chess teacher and author-his most famous pupil was Alexander McDonnell-and for a time he ran chess rooms in St. Martin's Lane. In 1819 he operated the chess-playing automaton The Turk when it was exhibited in London. The Lewis Counter Gambit was name for him. First blank page has "With the Publisher's Compliments" in pencil, otherwise clean, There are 2 small chips to the front cover cloth. (See picture), otherwise a handsome copy of this scarce chess book. Record # 383011

London: James Fraser. Good; Wear to head and foot of spine, two stains on front boards, foxing . and dampstaining to first and last several leaves, penciled gift . inscription on front free endpaper.. 1831. First Edition. Leather. Halfbound in red leather with red cloth boards. Author name and flourishes stamped in gilt on spine. xi, 320 pp. List of subscribers at front with several printed names pasted in and some stains. According to Wikipedia, William Lewis (1787-1870) was a noted English chess player and instructor, as well as the first person to be described as a chess Grandmaster. He was also one of the operators hidden inside the famous chess-playing automaton, "The Turk", when it toured London. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Chapman and Hall, London., 1835. First edition. Square 12mo. pp [ii], iv, 149. Illustrations printed in green, blue and red. Eight pages of adverts at rear. Original brown cloth with gilt vignette of a mounted knight on front. The book was published in the pre-Dickens period when Chapman and Hall issued titles largely intended to encourage visitors to their newly established bookshop at 186 Strand. Front joint splitting. Tail of spine a bit scuffed. Very good.

Chapman and Hall. Very Good. 1837. Unknown Binding. Original woven green cloth stamped in blind with gilt title and knight on horseback on front cover. Binding lightly soiled, spine unlettered, a touch of fraying to extremeties. Yellow endpapers, slight splits front and rear. Twenty-four colored illustrations of chessboards and pieces in green, dark blue and red. Paper toned, lightly soiled. One pencil correction of word "game" to "square." Spread wide at p. 64 but holding tightly. A wonderful copy of a scarce book. .