A History of Chess

First edition, third impression.  900pp, with numerous illustrations in text.  Black cloth-covered boards with gilt rook on upper panel and gilt lettering on the spine.  8vo.  Cloth a little pushed in at the base of the spine, with a tiny nick in cloth.  Traces of dustiness to upper text block edge.  A previous owner’s name neatly inked on the rear paste down else volume is neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original matte dust wrapper, not price clipped, worn, toned and chapped at edges, sunned over spine with a few scattered marks and small area of scarring on rear panel.  

First published in 1913,  Murray’s monumental A History of Chess took him over a decade to write and remains  a standard foundational work on this history of chess.  Murray traces the chess’s evolution from its ancient Indian predecessor, Chaturanga, through Persian and Arabic cultures to the medieval European development and modern rules.