Listing # 13770
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| Location: | Great Britain (UK) |
| Started: | 2019-09-08 14:15:00 |
| Ended: | 2019-09-15 17:48:00 |
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Kling (J.): The Chess Euclid; A Collection of Two Hundred Chess Problems and End-Games. Composed by Herr Kling. Revised and Corrected by the Author. H.Hurst & Co, London 1849.
First Edition. Tall octavo, rebound in brown cloth, good. Frontispiece, pp(iv)(vi), 214 problems printed two to a page, in red and blue, 26pp solutions at end, 16pp adverts (not chess). Includes a list of subscribers accounting for 149 copies. LN 2393.
An attractively produced and scarce book. This copy with signature of W.Timbrell Pierce (author of problem books in late 19th C.) There are two handwritten indexes of a sort, there are neat notes in green ink to nearly all of the problems regarding where the problems have been published, and some observations and notes to solutions, which adds to the interest of the book.
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