Stamma on the Game of Chess: Containing Numerous Openings of Games, and one hundred Critical Situations, illustrated on coloured diagrams

Author: Philip Stamma (1715-1770?) edited by William Lewis Year: 1819Publisher: T & J AllmanPlace: LondonDescription:xii+337 pages with illustrations and colored diagrams. Octavo ((8" x 5 1/2") bound quarter green boards with label to spine over stiff paper boards. Notes and remarks by William Lewis, author of Oriental chess. Translation of Stamma's Essai sur le jeu des echecs (1737). First published in English 1818. (Whyld & Ravilious: 1819:13) Second edition.Provenance Birmingham Chess Club with their stamp on title.Philip Stamma, a native of Aleppo, Ottoman Syria, later resident of England and France, was a chess master and a pioneer of modern chess. His reputation rests largely on his authorship of the early chess book Essai sur le jeu des echecs published 1737 in France (English translation: The Noble Game Of Chess 1745). This book brought the Middle Eastern concept of the endgame to the attention of Europe and helped revive European interest in the study of the endgame. S