Chess Made Easy. New and Comprehensive Rules for Playing the Game of Chess.
"The earliest known book on chess printed in America": Rare First Edition of Chess Made Easy. New and Comprehensive Rules for Playing the Game of Chess
Chess Made Easy. New and Comprehensive Rules for Playing the Game of Chess.
FRANKLIN, Dr. Benjamin.
$12,500.00
Item Number: 126090
Philadelphia: James Humphrey, 1802.
First edition of the earliest known book on chess printed in America. 32mo,bound in half leather over marbled boards, illustrated with engraved frontispiece. In very good condition with some rubbing to the extremities, frontispiece repaired, title-page repaired and dampstained. An exceptional rarity, with only one example appearing at auction in the last 75 years.
