| Notation of Games - Depictions of Board Games - Chess and Draughts TOP ROW  01 from Le Quatre Filz Aymon , Lyons, c1480  02 Honore Daumier, Parisians will never be under Police Supervision 
          , litho., 1847, and a comment on the docility of the public the year 
          before the Year of European Revolution, content to play draughts rather 
          than protest. 03 Jacobus de Cessolis, , Libro di Giuco di Scacchi, 
          English edition, Westminster, 1493/4 Jacobus de Cessolis,  04 Jacobus de Cessolis, Libro di Giuco di Scacchi, 
          Florence, 1493/4 Jacobus de Cessolis,     BOTTOM ROW 01 Joan Hassall Emblem for Chess, Sealskin Trousers 1947         02. from Jordanus, Nemorarius, In hoc opere contenta... 
          Paris, Higman and Hopyl, 1496  03 Damiano de Odemeira, Questo libro e da imperare giocare 
          a scachi et de la partite ,Guillery and Nani, Rome 1512. The 
          first Italian book about chess, informing on the individual pieces and 
          on certain moves. The author discusses blindfold chess and gives detailed 
          critiques on three individual games.   THE ART OF CHESS (paintings in the Public Domain)
  CHESS IN ADVERTISING
  CHECKMATE BALLET
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        AND BARBIER, The Famous Game of Chess, 1614 illustration
  SAUL
        AND BARBIER, The Famous Game of Chess, 1614 titlepage
  The Game of Chess as it was acted at the Globe  c1610
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