The chess-player's handbook
Subtitle: a popular and scientific introduction to the game of chess
By: exemplified in games actually played by the greatest masters and illustrated by numerous diagrams of original and remarkable positions by Edward Staunton ...
Contributors: Harrison & Sons
Edition: Second edition, revised.
Series: Bohn's Scientific Library
Publisher: Henry G. Bohn
Published: 1848
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 518
Subjects: Chess -- Technique.; Chess -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Other titles: Staunton's Chess-player's handbook
Notes: Preface dated 1847.

Preliminary chromolithographed plate is unsigned and without imprint.

Wood-engraved diagrams within the text are unsigned.

MASS copy: Bound in red fine vertical rib-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind.  Upper cover blocked in gold with illustration replicated from the text.  Spine with imprint: "Bohn's Scientific Library".  All sides of endpapers printed in blue with publisher's advertisements.