Staunton Edited (35 results)

Condition: New. pp. 521.

Condition: New. pp. 521.

Condition: New. pp. 521.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Annotations and Commentary by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Johnson and others. Foreword by Solomon J. Schepps. Dark burgundy leatherette boards with gold lettering and motif at front cover and at the spine. Highly illustrated book. Book pages are lightly toned around the edges. Pages are clean with no marks. Sir John Gilbert; Abel, Ray (Illustrations by); Brothers Dalziel (Engravings by) (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Assumed First Edition. Publisher's red cloth binding shows general light edge & corner wear, clean, spine a bit sunned, gilt stamping remains bright, t.e.g dulled; title page printed in red and black inks. Tightly bound, heavy foxing to all end papers, and less foxing to the half-title page and last few leaves in the book. An unmarked copy with minor paper toning. No dust jacket. Note: heel of spine stamped "Notable English Trials," instead of the publisher. "A report of the trial of L.A.E. Staunton, Patrick Llewellyn Staunton, Elizabeth Ann Staunton and Alice Rhodes for the murder of Harriet Staunton." 332 pages, plus 8 plates (collated). Experienced full-time bookseller since 1994. Images may be added by request. Questions welcome.…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Sadly in poor condition. Boards broken at both hinges, worn at head and tail of spine.

Paperback. Condition: New. Language: English. About The Book : It has now been proved, beyond the possibility of question, by the admirable researches of Dr. Duncan Forbes, that the original authors of the Chess-board and its arcana were the Hindoos. All the best modern writers upon the subject agree in admitting this conclusion, though some may still assert for the traditional claims of other nations more validity than they justly merit. Previously to the inquiries of Dr. Forbes, writers on Chess gave us a wide choice as to the seat of its invention. The Persians, the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Chinese, the Hindoos, the Arabians, the Araucanians, the Jews, the Scythians, the Babyloniansnay, even the Irish and the Welsh, were indifferently credited with the possible contrivance of the art. In many of these cases the choice was sufficiently absurd as to the period when Chess was first played; but Chess authors had no definite idea except that the game was of very remote antiquity. Such tribes as the Scythians, the Irish, and the Welsh were in a state of rude barbarism; and existing literature shows that neither the classical nations nor those with which they were intimately associated had any acquaintance with the game. About The Author : Howard Staunton (18101874) was an English chess master who is generally regarded as the world's strongest player from 1843 to 1851, largely as a result of his 1843 victory over Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant. He promoted a chess set of clearly distinguishable pieces of standardised shapethe Staunton pattern promulgated by Nathaniel Cookethat is still the style required for competitions. He was the principal organizer of the first international chess tournament in 1851, which made England the world's leading chess centre and caused Adolf Anderssen to be recognised as the world's strongest player. In 1836, Staunton came to London, where he took out a subscription for William Greenwood Walker's Games at Chess, actually played in London, by the late Alexander McDonnell Esq. Staunton was apparently twenty-six when he took a serious interest in chess. He said that at that time the strongest players he saw in London, Saint-Amant and George Walker, could easily have given him rook odds. In 1849, Nathaniel Cooke registered a chess set design, and Jaques of London obtained the manufacturing rights. Staunton advertised the new set in his Illustrated London News chess column, pointing out that the pieces were easily identifiable, very stable, and good-looking. Robert B. Wormald (1834-1876), the author is famous for writing Chess book. He has written and edited the following books namely, Chess openings, Robert B Wormald (1834-1876), ed.: Chess: theory & practice; containing the laws & history of the game, together with an analysis of the openings, & a treatise of end games (London, Virtue, 1876), by Howard Staunton, Robert B Wormald(1834-1876); The hand-book of chess, (London, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1860), Robert B Wormald (1834-1876); The laws and practice of chess : together with an analysis of the openings / (London : Chatto & Windus, 1890), also by Howard Staunton, Robert B Wormald (1834-1876), ed.; The laws and practice of chess; together with an analysis of the openings, and a treatise on end games; (London, Virtue & co., 1876), by Howard Staunton. The Title 'Chess : Theory and Practice : Containing the Laws and History of the Game, Together with an Analysis of the Openings, and a Treatise of end Games written/authored/edited by Author : Howard Staunton, Edited by Robert B. Wormald', published in the year 2023. The ISBN 9788121295505 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 521 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History, General. Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol: 521.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2364pp. 11 x 8.5 inch. All edges gilt. Patterned end-papers. Still tightly bound. Interior in nice clean condition, no names nor inscriptions. From a private collection (not ex-lib). Weighs 3.5 kg, additional postage may be requested for overseas shipment. Illustrations by Sir John Gilbert. (illustrator). …

Softcover. Condition: Good. Contains pages 305-400. Blue wrappers. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. Illustrated by John Gilbert. Good only with pages foxed, small stain on front wrapper, spine chipped.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Contains pages 257-304. Blue wrappers. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. Illustrated by John Gilbert. Good only with pages foxed, spine chipped.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Contains pages 65-112. Blue wrappers. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. Illustrated by John Gilbert. Good only with pages foxed, small sticker on front wrapper, spine and edges chipped.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Contains pages 161-256. Blue wrappers. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. Illustrated by John Gilbert. Good only with pages foxed, spine chipped.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Language: English. About The Book : It has now been proved, beyond the possibility of question, by the admirable researches of Dr. Duncan Forbes, that the original authors of the Chess-board and its arcana were the Hindoos. All the best modern writers upon the subject agree in admitting this conclusion, though some may still assert for the traditional claims of other nations more validity than they justly merit. Previously to the inquiries of Dr. Forbes, writers on Chess gave us a wide choice as to the seat of its invention. The Persians, the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Chinese, the Hindoos, the Arabians, the Araucanians, the Jews, the Scythians, the Babyloniansnay, even the Irish and the Welsh, were indifferently credited with the possible contrivance of the art. In many of these cases the choice was sufficiently absurd as to the period when Chess was first played; but Chess authors had no definite idea except that the game was of very remote antiquity. Such tribes as the Scythians, the Irish, and the Welsh were in a state of rude barbarism; and existing literature shows that neither the classical nations nor those with which they were intimately associated had any acquaintance with the game. About The Author : Howard Staunton (18101874) was an English chess master who is generally regarded as the world's strongest player from 1843 to 1851, largely as a result of his 1843 victory over Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant. He promoted a chess set of clearly distinguishable pieces of standardised shapethe Staunton pattern promulgated by Nathaniel Cookethat is still the style required for competitions. He was the principal organizer of the first international chess tournament in 1851, which made England the world's leading chess centre and caused Adolf Anderssen to be recognised as the world's strongest player. In 1836, Staunton came to London, where he took out a subscription for William Greenwood Walker's Games at Chess, actually played in London, by the late Alexander McDonnell Esq. Staunton was apparently twenty-six when he took a serious interest in chess. He said that at that time the strongest players he saw in London, Saint-Amant and George Walker, could easily have given him rook odds. In 1849, Nathaniel Cooke registered a chess set design, and Jaques of London obtained the manufacturing rights. Staunton advertised the new set in his Illustrated London News chess column, pointing out that the pieces were easily identifiable, very stable, and good-looking. Robert B. Wormald (1834-1876), the author is famous for writing Chess book. He has written and edited the following books namely, Chess openings, Robert B Wormald (1834-1876), ed.: Chess: theory & practice; containing the laws & history of the game, together with an analysis of the openings, & a treatise of end games (London, Virtue, 1876), by Howard Staunton, Robert B Wormald(1834-1876); The hand-book of chess, (London, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1860), Robert B Wormald (1834-1876); The laws and practice of chess : together with an analysis of the openings / (London : Chatto & Windus, 1890), also by Howard Staunton, Robert B Wormald (1834-1876), ed.; The laws and practice of chess; together with an analysis of the openings, and a treatise on end games; (London, Virtue & co., 1876), by Howard Staunton. The Title 'Chess : Theory and Practice : Containing the Laws and History of the Game, Together with an Analysis of the Openings, and a Treatise of end Games written/authored/edited by Author : Howard Staunton, Edited by Robert B. Wormald', published in the year 2023. The ISBN 9788121295512 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 521 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History, General. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol: 521.…

Leather. Condition: Very Good/Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: N0. Vol 1 Very good The leather cover has gilt outlining the front cover, with the title in gilt-stamped on spine with five raised band. There is some wear to corner and top and bottom of spine. The endpapers are marbled and clean; on the page before the title there is the Shakespeare crest. The Title page is aged and foxed and there is some foxing throughout the book. 746pp. Vol 2 Routledge, Warne, Routledge New York 1860 same as above 770pp. Vol 3 Routledge, Warne Routledge New York 1864 Same as above except pg 597-621 has pulled at binding, but not lose. 815 PP including preface index etc. All three volumes have very small gold sign which says "Froelich Leather Craft 42 W 16 ST, New York" on last page before endpapers These books are very heavy at 12lbs and will require extra postage. John Gilbert (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. nd. Facsimile reprint. Originally published London: C. Skeet, 1852. Volume thirteen (1852) only. Light blue illustrated glazed boards. 376pp plus index to the volume for 1852. Faint spotting on top edge. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 242 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Limited Edition de luxe. Type: Book No. 159 of an edition limited to 1,000 copies. 2 edges untrimmed, original olive, slightly grubby, cloth binding with spine title label, printed by R Clay, Sons and Taylor, London.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Limited Edition de luxe. Type: Book No. 159 of an edition limited to 1,000 copies. 2 edges untrimmed, original olive, slightly grubby, cloth binding with spine title label, printed by R Clay, Sons and Taylor, London.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Limited Edition de luxe. Type: Book No. 159 of an edition limited to 1,000 copies. 2 edges untrimmed, original olive, slightly grubby, cloth binding with spine title label, printed by R Clay, Sons and Taylor, London.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Limited Edition de luxe. Type: Book No. 159 of an edition limited to 1,000 copies. 2 edges untrimmed, original olive, slightly grubby, cloth binding with spine title label, printed by R Clay, Sons and Taylor, London.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Limited Edition de luxe. Type: Book pp xxiii, 358. No. 159 of an edition limited to 1,000 copies. 2 edges untrimmed, original olive, slightly grubby, cloth binding with spine title label, printed by R Clay, Sons and Taylor, London.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. This is a heavy four volume set - packed weight 6.2 kg and postage will be at cost, Extra postage will be requested and the order only dispatched if extra postage accepted. Within the UK postage will be £12.00. - for outside the UK please email for postage cost. lxxvi + 799 + 852 + 803 + 844 pages including glossarial index. Very attractive beige full leather covered binding with thin impressed gilt coach-line decoration to outer surfaces of boards, ornate gilt tooling to board edges a bit faded off to top edges. Cross-banded spines have had ornate gilt tooling which has mainly come off, title impressings legible to spine but no gilt - we suspect there have been labels to there segments which are lost. Some rubbing to the spines with a few dark marks & slight vertical lines, some surface rubbing to cross-bands . Light rubs & marks to boards commensurate with age. Ornate attractive maroon & turquoise marbling to page-edges and end-papers to match, end-paper marbling is a little darker, top page-edges marbling is a little dulled. Volume I has narrow cracks to outer hinges causing a light wobble to both & 2mm loss to top spine-end, Volume II has a cracked rear hinge as above with a 3cm crack to tyop top of the front hinge, Volume III has a crack to rear hinge without much wobble & a 6mm chip to top spine-end, Volume IV has no hinge cracks. Slight brown blotching to the rear of flyleaf in each volume. Pages have a slight wave to the touch upon inspection. Text is very clean & binding sound in each case.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 296 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 15 Volumes Complete. Limited this #826 of a thousand copies. A worthy and worthwhile binding project. Boards worn and soiled: chipped at the top and bottom of spine. Hinges cracked and separating in all Volumes. 5 Volumes partially disbound. Spine labels are soiled; 6 are chipped with 4 missing information. Volume IX has 2 inches of hand stitching at the front gutter. Interior clean and bright. Careful packing and fast, efficient shipping including delivery confirmation. Please note: International and Domestic Priority orders for this item will require additional shipping. SOLD AS IS. Sir John Gilbert (illustrator).…

Softcover. Condition: vg. First edition. Quarto (10 1/8 x 7 1/2"). [16]pp (Text), [12]pp (Plates). Original decorative wrappers. Photo-illustrated title. Official catalogue of the International Camera Pictures exhibition held in Melbourne, Australia, in August 1939. This catalogue features the b/w photographic reproductions of 12 of the 351 photographs submitted in competition. The featured photographs were taken by H. Cazneaux, Dr. Julian Smith, Quinto Albicocco, A. Staunton Archer, Willy Lange, Yvonne, Andor Angyalfi, Dr. Tibor de Csorgeo, G. L. Hawkins, Ray Olson, Grete Popper, and Harold B. Herbert. Wrappers and interior in overall very good condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Three handsome volumes, leatherbound with gilt spines and edges. Fine marbled endpapers. Gilt edges. Second volume's boards detached but text block sound. First and third volumes very good. All with some rubbing on the spine. Inventory #000169. Sir John Gilbert (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Good Plus. Complete in 2 volumes. Books measure 23x15.cm. lxxxiii, 172pp, 350pp. Bound in original publishers blue embossed, gilt cloth. Cloth rubbed, worn with minor loss, staining, mainly to second volume, institutional library stamp. Both volume in good firm condition. Internally, occasional library stamp, light staining to endpapers. Pages in good clean condition. A good solid set. Size: 8vo. …