A Collection of Two Hundred Chess Problems ... including the Problems to which the Prizes were awarded by the Committees of the

Author: Francis "Frank" Healey (1828-1906) from the library of Rimington WilsonYear: 1866Publisher: Longmans, Green & CoPlace: LondonDescription:xii+266 pages with frontispiece and diagrams. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") issued in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and blind stamped cover. Solution at the back. From the library of Rimington Wilson. (van der Linde: 1091; Betts: 33-38) First edition.Frank Healey was a famous English chess player, but above all a composer of chess problems. He published in 1866 a collection of 200 chess own compositions, which he regarded as decidedly aesthetic, indeed poetic achievements. "Problems are true poetry of chess. The same depth of imagination, the same keen perception of beauty, the same fertility of invention, we ask the poet, can be found in another form in the humble labors of problem composers. Certainly one can say, without the analogy to span that the 32 stones representing the alphabet of the composer, while the chess is his pa