Chess Made Easy. New and Comprehensive Rules for Playing the Game of Chess with Examples from Philidor, Cunningham etc etc to which is prefixed a Pleasing Account of its Origin... and The Morals of Chess, written by the ingenious and learned Dr. Franklin.

DESCRIPTION: London, J Harris, 1803. Duodecimo, 72 pages, with an engraved frontispiece of the chess board and pieces by H D Symonds dated 1797. Original flush fawn wrappers with paper label to upper wrapper.

FOURTH EDITION of this short but celebrated tract on chess first published in London in 1797 and in Philadelphia in 1802 - that edition probably the first work on chess to be published in America. All editions are rare, especially in original state and with the frontispiece, as here. Harris's fourth edition is not recorded in COPAC.

Of particular interest is Benjamin Franklin's contribution on the Morals of Chess, a celebrated essay which first appeared in a magazine of 1786, though it was probably written in about 1732.

SIZE: 137 x 85mm

CONDITION: slight soiling and signs of use, spine paper half chipped away, but a very good copy of a fragile item.

£475.00

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