The most ancient and learned playe, called the philosophers game, inuented for the honest recreation...
The most ancient and learned playe, called the philosophers game, inuented for the honest recreation of students, and other sober persons, in passing the tediousnes of tyme, to the release of their labours, and the exercise of their wittes. [electronic resource] : Set forth with such playne precepts, rules, and tables, that all men with ease may vnderstande it, and most men with pleasure practise it. / By W.F.
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Printed at London : by Rouland Hall, for Iames Roubothum, the yere 1563. the 21. of May.
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the yere 1563. the 21. of May.
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[80] p. : ill., port.
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Printed at London : by Rouland Hall, for Iames Roubothum, the yere 1563. the 21. of May.
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England
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the yere 1563. the 21. of May.
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The most ancient and learned playe, called the philosophers game, inuented for the honest recreation of students, and other sober persons, in passing the tediousnes of tyme, to the release of their labours, and the exercise of their wittes. [electronic resource] : Set forth with such playne precepts, rules, and tables, that all men with ease may vn...
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Philosophers game.
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Signatures: a⁸, A-D⁸ (D₃ marked C₃)
Armorial device facing t.p.
Attributed to Ralph Lever by STC (2nd ed.); also to William Fulke, cf. Moyer, A. The philosopher's game, rithomachia in medieval and renaissance Europe, 2001.
Imperfect: stained, a₂ lacking.
Reproduction of original in: Folger Shakespeare Library.
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STC (2nd ed.) 15542.
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Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/56.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 2121:6)
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