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Benjamin Franklin and chess in early America

Title
Benjamin Franklin and chess in early America / a review of the literature by Ralph K. Hagedorn.
Author
Hagedorn, Ralph K.
Publication
  • Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1958]
  • ©1958

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Additional Authors
  • Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
  • University of Pennsylvania. Press, publisher.
Description
92 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimile; 23 cm
Subject
  • Chess
  • Chess > Bibliography
  • chess
  • Chess
Genre/Form
  • bibliographies.
  • Essays
  • Bibliographies
  • Essays.
  • Bibliographies.
Note
  • Containing Franklin's "The morals of chess", with a selection of allusions to chess from his other writings, and an enlargement of Daniel W. Fiske's bibliography of chess in America to 1859.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 43-81).
Contents
Preface -- Benjamin Franklin's The morals of chess -- A commentary on Franklin's essay -- Franklin on chess -- Chess in America to 1859, a bibliography -- Appendix.
LCCN
57011987
OCLC
  • ocm00492948
  • 492948
  • SCSB-250872
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library