The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men and Manners, Times and Seasons, Solemnities and Merry-makings, Antiquities and Novelties on the Plan of the Every-day Book and Table Book ...T. Tegg, 1832 - 1643 pages |
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Page 265
... CHESS PLAY. * * * * * March 1 . ST . DAVID'S DAY . On this great festival of the patron of Wales , there is a very curious Latin poem in excessive praise of the saint and his country , entitled " Martis Calenda , sive landes Cambro ...
... CHESS PLAY. * * * * * March 1 . ST . DAVID'S DAY . On this great festival of the patron of Wales , there is a very curious Latin poem in excessive praise of the saint and his country , entitled " Martis Calenda , sive landes Cambro ...
Page 271
... chess , " is an attempt to reduce a rare and very valuable copper - plate print , after an en- graving of it in " A ... chess . An artist of the first eminence , recently deceased , designed a beautiful set of pieces for the chess ...
... chess , " is an attempt to reduce a rare and very valuable copper - plate print , after an en- graving of it in " A ... chess . An artist of the first eminence , recently deceased , designed a beautiful set of pieces for the chess ...
Page 273
... chess - board of the world . When the pawn attains the utmost in his power , he changes to fen ; and , in like manner , humble poverty becomes rich and insolent . The al phins represent various prelates ; a pope , archbishop , and ...
... chess - board of the world . When the pawn attains the utmost in his power , he changes to fen ; and , in like manner , humble poverty becomes rich and insolent . The al phins represent various prelates ; a pope , archbishop , and ...
Page 559
... chess- men , which he most obligingly lent , for the purpose of drawings being inade from such of the pieces as might be se- lected . Six engravings are executed , in- luding the king and queen above . FLAXMAN'S CHESSMEN . [ For the ...
... chess- men , which he most obligingly lent , for the purpose of drawings being inade from such of the pieces as might be se- lected . Six engravings are executed , in- luding the king and queen above . FLAXMAN'S CHESSMEN . [ For the ...
Page 561
... chess . He has taste in the fine arts , as well as skill in the game , and I produced a set of Flaxman's chess - men , by Wedgewood , which I deem it good for- tune to possess , and which I think must be the pieces alluded to in the ...
... chess . He has taste in the fine arts , as well as skill in the game , and I produced a set of Flaxman's chess - men , by Wedgewood , which I deem it good for- tune to possess , and which I think must be the pieces alluded to in the ...
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