[Rarebooks] FS: The Game of Chess, 1921, 1/250 copies

Charles Agvent agvent at erols.com
Fri Dec 2 07:57:43 EST 2005


VIDA,  Mark  Jerome. THE GAME OF CHESS.  [London]:  Stanton  Press
1921.  Quarto  (8-1/8" x 10-1/2") bound in original linen-backed  blue
boards.  Copy  #121 of 250 copies on cream wove paper with  the  Latin
text  facing  the English hexameter translation by R. C.  Lambert  and
SIGNED  by him. Borders, woodcut initials, frontispiece portrait,  and
five  full-page  woodcuts by Elinor Lambert. Extra spine label  tipped
in  at  rear. Just about Fine copy with minor stain at heel of  spine.
                                                                $200.00
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