ROGET, Peter Mark. De La Rue & Co's Combined Pocket Chess and Draught Board with chess and draughts-men. De La Rue & Co. [c.1860?]
Folded card chess board complete with 32 printed chess pieces with draughtsmen on versos, inserted into individual pockets. Light yellow glazed boards, printed in maroon and mustard with decorative borders; v. sl. dulled. In the original purple pebble-grained cloth slip-case. v.g.
¶Peter Mark Roget, publisher of the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, 1851, was a keen and talented chess player inventing the Economic Chess Board to allow himself to play while on the move. First published in 1845 in cloth boards and entitled the Economic Chess Board this later example is in glazed boards and with a revised title to include the addition of draughts. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT.
Stock #67647
£250
46, Great Russell Street - (opp. British Museum) - Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3PA
