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The speaking figure, and the automaton chess-player, exposed and detected.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1779 Nob (b.w.) Af.330.7 (Franklin)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thicknesse, Philip, 1719-1792 21379
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Automaton chess players--Great Britain--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.
- Genre:
- Booksellers' advertisements -- England -- London -- 1784.
- Physical Description:
- 20, [4] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. (metal cuts) ; 21 cm. (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- London: : Printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly,, MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]
- Notes:
- Anonymous. By Philip Thicknesse.--ESTC.
- Includes engraved frontispiece, depicting how the "speaking figure" is used.
- Bookseller's advertisement on [4] p. at end has separate dated title page and includes an "Address to the public" ; advertisement was also issued separately (Cf. ESTC N46985); title page reads: This day is published, Stockdale's edition of Shakspeare; including, in one volume, the whole of his dramatic works; with explanatory notes, compiled from various commentators. Embellished with a striking likeness of the authors. London : Printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly. M, DCC, LXXXIV." [1784.
- Signatures: A-C⁴.
- Local Notes:
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- HSP in LCP.
- Bound with Denoble Lalauzière, Memoire, q.v.; number 6 in table of contents, item 7 in volume. Modern half sheep over contemporary floral boards; bound with other items. MS table of contents on flyleaf in William Temple Franklin's hand, with the final item added by Col. William Duane; purchased from Dufief, 1801-03, by Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (110): sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
- Cited in:
- ESTC N023931
- Contains:
- This day is published, Stockdale's edition of Shakspeare; including, in one volume, the whole of his dramatic works; with explanatory notes, compiled from various commentators.
- OCLC:
- 172985575
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