Author: HOWARD STAUNTON
Title: The Chess-Player's Companion: Comprising a New Treatise on Odds and a Collection of Games Contested by the Author with Various Distinguished Players During the Last Ten Years; Including the Great French Match with Mons. St Amant to Which Are Added a Selection of New and Instructive Problems
Description: London, Goege Bell & Sons. 1879, 1st Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, xi 510pp [13]pp publisher's list at rear dated 1881, hardback, red decorated cloth gilt, blind embossed decoration and gilt chess board and pieces to front board boards with stains and marks, adverts to end-papers, frontispiece coloured with tissue-guard, rear hinge tape-repaired. Fair.

Keywords: chess