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The speaking figure, and the automaton chess-player, exposed and detected.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online I (ECCO) Available online

Eighteenth Century Collections Online I (ECCO)
Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Thicknesse, Philip, 1719-1792.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Automaton chess players--Early works to 1800.
Automaton chess players.
Chess--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
Chess.
Swindlers and swindling--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
Swindlers and swindling.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (20,[4]p.,plate )
Other Title:
Speaking figure,
Place of Publication:
London : printed for John Stockdale, Opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]
Notes:
Anonymous. By Philip Thicknesse.
With two final advertisement leaves.
Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.
Cited in:
English Short Title Catalog, N23931.
OCLC:
642170724

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