Cessolis, Jacobus de:
De ludo scachorum [English] The play of chess. Translated by William Caxton, from the French of Jean de Vignay
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authorCessolis, Jacobus de
titleDe ludo scachorum [English] The play of chess. Translated by William Caxton, from the French of Jean de Vignay
imprint[Ghent? : David Aubert?, for William Caxton], 31 Mar. 1474
dimensionsf°
notesFor Caxton's association with David Aubert and the location of his press at Ghent rather than Bruges, see L. Hellinga, in Bulletin du bibliophile 2011 no.1 pp.86-114
Reproductions of the watermarks found in the paper used in this edition are provided by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands.
languageofitemeng
referencesGoff C413; HC 4902; Camp(I)-Kron 418a; ILC 556; Duff 81; DeR(C) 1; Cx 5; STC 4920; Polain(B) 4469; Oates 3839; Bod-inc C-168; Sheppard 7062; Pr 9323; BMC IX 130; GW 6532
holdings
BE (imperfect, wanting leaves 2,7,8 and 65)
GB
(14387)
(imperfect)
(C.10.b.23 = IB.49432)
(G.10543 = IB.49433) (An imperfect copy with the variant colophon. Leaves 3, 66 and 73 are supplied in pen-and-ink facsimile)
US (DeR 1.10)
(DeR 1.4)
(DeR 1.7)
(Holford) (DeR 1.2)
(DeR 1.5)
(DeR 1.18, imperfect)
noofcopies12
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