The book of chess
Subtitle: containing the rudiments of the game, and elementary analyses of the most popular openings ; exemplified in games actually played by the greatest masters; including Staunton's analysis of the king's and queen's gambits, numerous positions and problems on diagrams, both original and selected; also a series of chess tales, with illustrations engraved from original designs ; the whole extracted and translated from the best sources
By: by H.R. Agnel
Contributors: Staunton, Howard, 1810-1874
Publisher: D. Appleton & Co.
Published: 1857
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 509
Copyright date: 1848
Other titles: Chess for winter evenings
Notes: Book, cloth, with cover design in gold of chess board with caption: White having to play can checkmate in 6 moves; frontispiece.

[10] pages of publisher's advertisements at end.

Robert Todd Lincoln's copy. Handwritten in black ink on inside front cover: "R.T. Lincoln Springfield Illinois"; handwritten in pencil on front free endpaper: "Robert T. Lincoln Springfield Illinois"; handwritten in black ink on first preliminary page with decorative red florishes and drawing of an American flag: "Robert T. Lincoln" and in red "March[?] 58"; handwritten in black ink on back free endpaper: "This book was stolen from R.T. Lincoln Springfield Illinois" continued in blue ink in a different hand "by his wife Mary Harlan Lincoln and given by her to his granddaughter Mary Harlan Lincoln Beckwith"; handwritten in black ink on inside back cover: "RT Lincoln".