Open Access#11597
Ludus scacchiæ: = chesse-play A game, both pleasant, wittie, and politicke: with certain briefe instructions therevnto belonging; 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. ; Libro da im...
[16], 30, [2] p. ; Slightly modernized extracts from the anonymous 1562 English translation of "Libro da imparare giocare a scachi" by Damiano da Odenara, with "Scacchia ludus" by Marco Girolamo Vida, in verse, translated by G.B. ; Actual printer's name from STC. ; With a final leaf of verse "To the reader". ; Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.