Stamma on the game of chess; containing numerous openings of games, and one hundred critical situations, illustrated on colored diagrams
An 1818 London edition of Philip Stamma's chess treatise, issued by W.H. Reid for players studying openings and set problems, with one hundred critical positions given as colored diagrams. Each plate is a numbered green-ruled board of pale green and cream squares holding small red and black pieces under a line such as "Red to win the game," offering flat grid patterns, silhouette chessmen, and plain letterpress captions on foxed paper.
