The sports and pastimes of the people of England : Including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time (1845)
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : T. Togg · leaf 377
p. ii64. * Ibid. * Ency. Brit, wovii Che&s. 310 SPORTS AND PASTIMES BOOK IV. extraordinary conduct; it proves at least that the fascinating-powers of this fashionable diversion are very extensive uponthe minds of those who pursue it earnestly. VII.—THE CHESS-BOARD.The number of the pieces and… … 100. Ancient-Chess-play. This engraving- is fromadrawing inabeautifully illuminated MS,preserved in the British Museum among the Harleian Collection.This MS. was written at the close of the fourteenth century,and bears every mark of being the very copy presented to Isabel • No. 4431. CHAP. II. OF…
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