first facsimile edition
CAXTON, William.
The Game of the Chesse, by William Caxton.
[London, Vincent & James Figgin 1855].
The type was traced from the 1482 Westminster Caxton edition housed in the (then) British Museum Library, and the work is bound in the publisher's blind-tooled calf in imitation of a period binding.
The Game of Chesse derives from a popular mid-thirteenth century courtesy treatise by the Dominican friar Jacobus de Cessolis (fl.1250-1322) on the nature of the customs and duties that rank has allotted to commoners and men of noble birth.
First facsimile edition; 4to (29 x 22 cm); 23 woodcut illustrations, 4pp ads to rear, publisher's panelled calf decorated in blind, edges stained red; [170], 13, [3], [4 ads]pp.
Stock code 123751
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