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 (1830)
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : Printed for William Reeves · leaf 381
ol. i. p. 264. * Ibid. • Ency. Brit, word Chess. 310 SPORTS AND PASTIMES BOOK IV. extraordinary conduct; it proves at least that the fascinatingpowers of this fashionable diversion are very extensive upon 1the minds of those who pursue it earnestly. VII.—THE CHESS-BOARD.Tlie number of the pieces… … 100. AncII NT-CuESb-rLAV. This engraving is fromadrawing inabeautifully illuminated MS.preserved in the Britisli Museum among the Ilarleian Collection.*This MS. was written at the close of the fourteenth century,and bears every murk of being the very copy presented to Isabel » No. 4431. CHAP, II.…
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