![[GRECO, GIOACHINO; BEALE, FRANCIS-trans.] The royall game of chesse-play. Sometimes the recreation of the late King, with many of the nobility. Illustrated with almost an hundred gambetts. Being the study of Biochimo the famous Italian.](/sites/default/files/styles/auction_slider/public/images/lots/352/1333352.jpg?itok=_l2fEh6B)
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Lot 101
[GRECO, GIOACHINO; BEALE, FRANCIS, trans.] The royall game of chesse-play. Sometimes the recreation of the late King, with many of the nobility. Illustrated with almost an hundred gambetts. Being the study of Biochimo the famous Italian.
London: printed for Henry Herringman..., 1656. First edition in English of Greco's Trattato del nobilissimo giuoco degli scacchi. Period brown calf, rebacked in cloth, all edges red. 5 5/8 x 3 1/2 inches (14 x 9 cm); 20, [120] pp.; with the engraved frontispiece portrait of Charles I signed by P. Stent. Binding rubbed, boards exposed at fore-edge, small loss to the frontispiece clear of image and engraved text, the lower margin of this short; lacking the preliminary blank, the title shaved at the lower border and with a paper flaw, still overall a sound copy.
Greco, a Calabrian, lived a peripatetic existence as a professional chess player, visiting England in 1622. He died in the West Indies, likely by 1634. In the present copy, the final leaf (K1, Herringman's address to the reader, with the errata on the verso) has been bound after the title, followed by Beale's dedicatory epistle to Montague, Earl of Lindley; the preliminaries are thus bound out of order, but all are present. ESTC R23418.
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