The lost manuscript of the Reverend Lewis Rou's 'Critical remarks upon the Letter to the Craftsman on the game of chess' written in 1734 and dedicated to His Excellency William Cosby, governor of New York
A 1902 facsimile edition published by the Landi Press, edited by Willard Fiske, of an unpublished 1734 manuscript by the Reverend Lewis Rou on chess, dedicated to New York governor William Cosby. The single picture is a small black ornamental medallion, a radial lace-like rosette of fleurs and stylised petals set low on an otherwise blank page, suggesting a designer might borrow its symmetrical, dense radial geometry for a decorative border, tile or chapter ornament.
