The Play of Chess

The Play of Chess: Edition Description

Summary:

    Author: Cessolis, Jacobus de
    Title: The play of chess
    Other Authors: Caxton, William (from from the French of Jean de Vignay)
    Place: [Ghent?; also recorded as Bruges]
    Printer/Publisher: David Aubert? for William Caxton
    Date: 31 Mar. 1474
    Main Language: English
    Note: See Hellinga 2001.
    Contents:
      Item 1: The Game of Chess [fol. 2r-]

        Incipit: To the right noble / right excellent and vertuous prince...

Physical Description:

Object Description:

Form: Codex

Material: Paper Watermarks in Incunabula printed in the Low Countries (WILC)

Format: F°

Ideal collation: [a-h8i10.] 74 leaves, fols 1, 73v and 74 blank

Layout description:

      Layout:
      • Columns: 1
      • Written Lines: 31

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List of Copies:

    • Copies as listed in ISTC
      • UK, London, British Library (C.10.b.23 = IB.49432, G.10543 = IB.49433, G.10543 is an imperfect copy with the variant colophon. Leaves 3, 66 and 73 are supplied in pen-and-ink facsimile)
      • UK, Cambridge, Cambridge University Library
      • UK, Manchester, The University of Manchester, The John Rylands Library, 14387
      • UK, Oxford, University of Oxford, Bodleian Library, (imperfect)
      • Belgium: Brussels, BR (imperfect, wanting leaves 2,7,8 and 65)
      • USA, Chicago IL, The Newberry Library (Holford) (DeR 1.2)
      • USA, New Haven CT, Yale Univ., Center for British Art (DeR 1.18, imperfect)
      • USA, New York NY, New York Public Library, Rare Book Division (DeR 1.7)
      • USA, New York NY, Pierpont Morgan Library (DeR 1.5)
      • USA, San Marino CA, The Huntington Library (DeR 1.10)
      • USA, Washington DC, Library of Congress, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (DeR 1.4)

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