Chess: theory & practice; containing the laws & history of the game, together with an analysis of the openings, & a treatise of end games ...
A chess manual by Howard Staunton, edited after his death by Robert B. Wormald and published in London by Virtue in 1876, covering rules, history, openings and endgames for players and students. The plates are wood-engraved board diagrams: hatched dark squares, small silhouetted pieces, and rings marking legal moves, usable as geometric pattern, grid motif or pictographic icon set.
