first edition Hardcover
1901-1905 · Philadelphia
by Mordecai Morgan (1862-1931)
4 volumes: Volume I: 472 pages with diagrams, tables and appendix; Volume II: 446 pages with tables and diagrams; Volume III 518 pages with diagrams and tables; Volume IV: 693 pages with frontispiece, diagrams, tables, appendix and index. Quarto (11" x 7 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt lettering to cover with pictorial chess board in gilt. (Betts: 49-51) First edition.
Volume 1 published in 1901; volume 2 published in 1902; volume 3 published in 1903. Volume 4 published in 1905. An encyclopaedia of opening practices in tabulated form. Volume one covers the Ruy Lopez, Three and Four Knights' (truncated)
Volume 1 published in 1901; volume 2 published in 1902; volume 3 published in 1903. Volume 4 published in 1905. An encyclopaedia of opening practices in tabulated form. Volume one covers the Ruy Lopez, Three and Four Knights' (truncated)