The elements of draughts; or, Beginners' sure guide: containing a thorough and minute exposition of every principle separately explained: together with model games ..
An instructional manual on draughts (checkers) by I. D. J. Sweet, published by R. M. DeWitt in New York in 1872 for novice players learning openings and model games. The plates are square eight-by-eight boards printed as coarse wood-engraved diagrams, dark stippled squares against bare paper, with concentric-ringed discs marking positions; useful as ready-made grid patterns, game-board motifs, and scatterable circular tokens.
