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An introduction to the game of draughts. Containing fifty select games, Together with Many critical Situations for Drawn Games, Won Games, and Fine Strokes. The Whole designed for the Instruction of Young Players, in this innocent and delightful Amusement. By William Payne, teacher of mathematics.
Payne, William, teacher of mathematics.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]- Pictures
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A pair of Pensioners, seated at a table, playing draughts, with others looking on, inside the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, with a vignette of tricorn hat, wooden leg, clay pipe, drinking glass and medals at lower left. Etching by G. Fox, 1887.
Fox, George, 1851-192?Date: 1887Reference: 20763i- Pictures
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Men playing draughts in Button's Coffee-House, London, ca. 1720. Aquatint by S. Ireland after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Reference: 544376i- Pictures
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Men playing draughts in Button's coffee-house ca. 1720 Aquatint by S. Ireland after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Reference: 544375i- Books
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Guide to the game of draughts. Containing five hundred select games, together with one hundred and forty striking situations, exhibiting games drawn, and won, by critical strokes; comprising almost every possible variety which the board can display, and rendered plain and familiar to the learner, by clear arrangement, and explanatory directions. The whole designed to form the scientific and accomplished player, in the pleasing but difficult game of draughts. By Joshua Sturges. Dedicated by permission, to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Sturges, Joshua, -1813.Date: 1800