British Chess Magazine Classics Reprints edition, Paperback, no date (circa 1967?), 72+201p., condition:good, 410 grams

The Game and Playe of Chesse is a book by William Caxton, the first English printer. Published in the 1470s, it is one of the earliest titles published in English. It was based on a book by Jacobus de Cessolis. The book is an "allegory of fixed social structures where each rank has its allotted role."