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 212 Hijiory of Do??ieJiic Manners as in moft of the editions of that work, there is a pi6hire of a group of cheff-players, who are here feated at a round table. The cheiT-board is reprefented in our cut. No. 149, and it will be feen at a glance that the 48. Chefi hi the Fifteenth Century. chelf-men prefent a fiir greater refemblance to thofe ufed at the prefcnt day than thofe given i)i the older illuminations. Within a few years of the date of this book, a Portuguefe, named Damiano, who was perhaps No. 149. An Italian Cheff-board. refiding in Italy, as his work feems to have appeared there firft, drew up a book of directions for chefs with a fet of eighty-eight games, which difplay confiderable ingenuity. An edition of this book was publilhed at Rome
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