De Witt's American chess manual. Containing full instructions for young players
A chess instruction manual edited by Henry Chadwick and published in New York by De Witt in 1880, aimed at young players learning the game. The pictures are plain line-drawn diagrams of chessboards with black-and-white pieces set out in problem positions and a starting setup, showing how each piece moves and how endgames are arranged. A designer could take from them the simple checkerboard hatching and the clean, legible piece silhouettes typical of 19th-century instructional diagrams.
