Chess for beginners
Subtitle: in a series of progressive lessons, showing the most approved methods of beginning and ending the game, with various situations and checkmates : illustrated by numerous diagrams, printed in colours
By: by William Lewis ...
Contributors: Whiting (Firm)
Edition: Second edition, revised and corrected.
Publisher: Chapman and Hall
Published: 1837
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Chess
Notes: "Price Five Shillings and Sixpence."--Half-title.

Colour wood-engraved plates are printed in green, red and dark blue.  All are unsigned and without imprint.

Plates are the same as those used in an 1835 edition of this title published by Chapman and Hall.  See McLean D 0667.

Most plates are the same as those used in the "Third Edition" of this title published in 1846 by Chapman and Hall.  See McLean D 0669.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [2-3] at end.

MASS copy: Bound in blue fine diaper-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind; a.e. speckled red. Upper cover blocked in gold with the same illustration showing a knight on a horse, as blocked in gold on McLean D 0667 and McLean D 0669. With pale pastel yellow painted endpapers.  With bookseller's label: "T. Shipton, Bookseller,13, Promenade, Cheltenham.".  With ownership inscription: "John Hawkins  London 1868".  With ownership inscription: "Burbridge  1899".