Antique Mediaeval Chess Woodcut Watch

"One of the most famous and iconic books on chess is really not about chess at all. Jacobus de Cessolis, (Jacopo da Cessole, c. 1250 – c. 1322) the author of The Game and Playe of the Chesse, found its way into print in the very highly capable hands of William Caxton in 1474 and into a second edition in (about) 1483. Caxton produced a spectacular, beautiful work on moral and ethical virtue and challenge, using the game of chess as the foundation for metaphor and alliteration of the wide classical literature that it calls upon. The book doesn't tell you how to play--but it does instruct on how to live. A great aid to the book's power are the sixteen strong woodcuts ("repeated to make twenty-four figures""