Chess -- The Playe of Chess

Games: Chess (Facsimile)

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Relatively high-resolution images at Digital Bodleian, from Caxton's English translation of De ludo scachorum. One of the first books published in English! Not actually very useful from a rules POV, though: this is mostly moral philosophy, using Chess and its pieces as a metaphor.

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