Download or read book The Game and Playe of the Chesse written by William Caxton and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Game and Playe of Chesse is a book by William Caxton, the first English printer. Published in the 1470s, it was for a time thought to be the first book published in English, but that title now goes to Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, also by Caxton. It was based on a book by Jacobus de Cessolis.