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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. : 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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lever, Ralph, -1584.
- Series:
- Early English books online
- Standardized Title:
- Most noble, auncient, and learned playe
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematical recreations--Early works to 1800.
- Mathematical recreations.
- Philosophical recreations--Early works to 1800.
- Philosophical recreations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (80 unnumbered pages) : illustrations, portrait
- Other Title:
- Philosophers game
- Place of Publication:
- Printed at London : by Rouland Hall, for Iames Roubothum, the yere 1563. the 21. of May.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Signatures: a⁸, A-D⁸ (D₃ marked C₃)
- Armorial device facing t.p.
- Attributed to Ralph Lever by STC (2nd edition); also to William Fulke, compare Moyer, A. The philosopher's game, rithomachia in medieval and renaissance Europe, 2001.
- Imperfect: stained, a₂ lacking.
- Reproduction of original in: Folger Shakespeare Library.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 2121:6) s1999 miun s
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd edition) 15542.
- OCLC:
- 52633315
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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