Does anyone know of a book on the history of the Lewis Chessman?

John

Check Amazon.com, however I think it is out-of-print

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Does anyone know of a book on the history of the Lewis Chessman?

John

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Morris:
Does anyone know of a book on the history of the Lewis Chessman?

My sister got me for my birthday last year:

The Lewis chessmen and the enigma of the hoard - Neil Stratford
Published by The British museum press
ISBN: 0 7141 0587 2

Joost
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In artikel schreef John
Morris:
Does anyone know of a book on the history of the Lewis Chessman?

My sister got me for my birthday last year:

The Lewis chessmen and the enigma of the hoard - Neil Stratford
Published by The British museum press
ISBN: 0 7141 0587 2

Sounds interesting; I haven't read it. There is also the earlier
pamphlet by Michael Taylor, The Lewis Chessmen, (British Museum
Publications, 1978).

I have often wondered whether the story about their discovery in Uig,
Lewis, might not be a fabrication. They may even be fakes.

Some say the pieces include the earliest known examples of an
ecclesiastical bishop; I'm not sure whether this is true or not.

What does Stratford say about where they might have been before they
were exhibited by Roderik Ririe in 1831? How does he cover Alexander
Macleod and Calum nan Sprot? Kirkpatrick Sharpe, who bought 10 of them
early on, is supposed to have 'found' another one later. Hmmmmm.

--
banana "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you
give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to
Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the
rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)

So then, you are saying there are at least three versions of the Lewis
Island set, BM, RC, and SAC?

I have the ones sold by House of Staunton which is the old John Jauqes
brand out of Surrey, which come in a nice heavy cardboard box wtih
interlocking cardboard strips forming storage partitions for each
individual piecce. Does anybody know if this Jaques set has pieces
identical to the BM repro version?

All of the set give me a well weighted and balanced impression, e.g.
ike a nice stable Staunton set, and thus opposite to most of the other
hundreds of decoritive patterns.

For instance the HOS website's descriptions of the pawns, as like
"tombstones", which might make them sound as being too thin to stay
put if the board is slightly jostled. But actually they are quite
thick, shaped more like Roman mileposts.

Also, the brown and white armies feature differing appearance for each
side, including the pawns, and I was able to match up all of them in
appearance to one of the originals.

All in all, I found this set handsome, historical, playable!


W.H. King