The Game and Playe of the Chesse

The Game and Playe of the Chesse is a book by William Caxton, the first English printer.

Published in the 1470s, it is one of the earliest titles published in English,[1] the first being Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, also by Caxton.

It was based on a book by Jacobus de Cessolis.

[2] The book is an "allegory of fixed social structures where each rank has its allotted role.

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