The American draught player; or, The theory and practice of the scientific game of checkers;
A checkers manual by Henry Spayth, published in New York by Dick & Fitzgerald in 1880 for players studying openings, endings and problem positions. The forty-two plates are square line-engraved boards, hatched dark squares against blank light ones, with stacked cylindrical pieces drawn in tight parallel shading; useful as grid patterns, hatching textures and small isolated token motifs.
