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George Walker

(Walker, George, 1803-1879)

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• Walker, George, 1803-1879: Anweisung zum Schachspielen; die vorzüglichsten Spieleröffnungen und Endspiele, nebst einigen eigenthümlichen Stellungen, und fünfzig ausgewählten Aufgaben enthaltend; (Frankfurt am Main, J. D. Sauerländer, 1833-36), trans. by J. F. Schiereck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walker, George, 1803-1879: Catalogue of a valuable collection of works on the game of chess, printed and manuscript, ([London] Dryden press, 1874), also by England) Sotheby & Co. (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walker, George, 1803-1879: Chess and chess-players: consisting of original stories and sketches. (London, C.J. Skeet, 1850) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walker, George, 1803-1879: Chess made easy, being a new introduction to the rudiments of that scientific and popular game. (Baltimore, J. Neal, 1839) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walker, George, 1803-1879: Chess made easy, being a new introduction to the rudiments of that scientific and popular game. (London, Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1836) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walker, George, 1803-1879: Chess made easy, intended as a first book. (London, W. & T. Piper, 1850) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walker, George, 1803-1879: The chess player / by George Walker; to which are added the three games played at one and the same time by Philidor; sixty openings, mates and situations, by W. S. Kenny, with remarks, anecdotes, &c. &c., and an explanation of the round chess board. (Boston : Nathl. Dearborn, 1840), also by W. S. Kenny and Benjamin Franklin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walker, George, 1803-1879: The chess player ... containing Franklin's essay on the Morals of chess, Introduction to the rudiments of chess (Boston, N. Dearborn [etc., etc.], 1841), also by Benjamin Franklin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walker, George, 1803-1879: The chess player : illustrated with engravings and diagrams ... / (Boston : N. Dearborn, 1841) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walker, George, 1803-1879: Chess studies, comprising one thousand games; a collection of classical and brillant specimens of chess skill. (London, K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd., 1893), ed. by E. Freeborough and Edward Freeborough (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walker, George, 1803-1879: Chess studies: comprising one thousand games, actually played during the last half century; presenting a unique collection of classical and brilliant specimens of chess skill, in every stage of the game: and thus forming a complete encyclopedia of reference. (London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1844) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walker, George, 1803-1879: Cribbage made easy : being a new and complete treatise on the game in all its varieties : including the whole of Anthony Pasquin's [i.e. John Williams'] scientific work on five-card cribbage / (New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, 1866), also by John Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Walker, George, 1803-1879: A few observations on A new treatise on chess by George Walker. (London, 1841), also by Society of amateurs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walker, George, 1803-1879: Il segreto del famoso automa che giuocava a scacchi : articolo estratto dal fascicolo di settembre 1839, della Rivista britannica / (Firenze : Tipografia di G. Benelli, 1841) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walker, George, 1803-1879: Jaenisch's chess preceptor : a new analysis of the openings of games / (London : Printed for Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1847), also by C. F. de Jaenisch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walker, George, 1803-1879: A new treatise on chess / (London : Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1841) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walker, George, 1803-1879: A new treatise on chess, containing the rudiments of the game explained on scientific principles, with the best methods of playing the most brilliant openings and difficult ends of games, including numerous original positions, and a selection of fifty new chess problems. (London, Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, 1833) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walker, George, 1803-1879: A new treatise on chess, containing the rudiments of the science, with an analysis of the best methods of playing the different openings and ends of games, including many original positions, and a selection of fifty chess problems never before printed in this country. (London, Walker and son, 1832) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walker, George, 1803-1879: The Philidorian; a magazine of chess & other scientific games; (London, G. Walker, 1838) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walker, George, 1803-1879: A selection of games at chess, actually played by Philidor and his contemporaries : now first published from the original manuscripts ; with notes and additions / (London : Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, 1835) (page images at HathiTrust)

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