Ludus scacchiae =
Subtitle: Chesse-play : a game, both pleasant, wittie, and politicke : with certain briefe instructions therevnto belonging
By: translated out of the Italian into the English tongue ; containing also therein a prety and pleasant poeme of a whole game played at chesse / written by G.B.
Contributors: Damiano, da Odemira.; Vida, Marco Girolamo, ca. 1485-1566.; Rowbothum, James.; Gruget, Claude.; G. B.
Publisher: Harding and Wright
Published: 1810
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Chess.
Other titles: Chesse-play
Notes: BM CXLVI, column 120
Attributed by Brunet, Graesse (Supp.), and Lowndes to G. Blochimo.
Reprint of the 1597 ed. printed at London by H. Jackson.
The date of this reprint has been variously cited as 1806, 1809, and 1810.
According to BM, the 1st pt. is merely an abridgment of Rowbothum's translation of Damiano da Odemira's Libro da imparare giocare a scachi, published at London, 1562 under the title The pleasaunt and wittie play of te cheasts renewed ... lately translated out of Italien into Frenche [by Claude Gruget] and now set forth in Englische.
The 2nd pt. is a free rendering of Marco Girolamo Vida's poem "Scacchia ludus". Cf. Linde, Gesch. u. Lit. d. Schachspiels, v. 2, p. 268.
Signatures: A⁴ a⁴ B-E⁴.
Table of contents: title: To the reader greeting / G.B.; title: The chesse-play / G.B.; title: Scacchia ludus : chesse play / W.(G.)B.; title: To the reader / G.B.