Chess: East and West, Past and Present

Chess: East and West, Past and Present

Chess: East and West, Past and Present, Jessie McNab Dennis & Charles K. Wilkinson, 180 p.

The book is presenting a selection of 108 chess sets & pieces from the Gustavus A. Pfeiffer Collection exhibited at The Brooklyn Museum in 1968. The catalogue was compiled and commented by Jessie McNab Dennis, Assistant Curator of Western European Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Introduction, which gives an overview of the history of chess and the development of chessmen, was written by Charles K. Wilkinson, Curator Emeritus of Near Eastern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The book was published in New York in 1968 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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