(Automaton Chess-Player) | Maelzel's mysterious mechanism

(Automaton Chess-Player)

Maelzel's Exhibition. London: L. Harrison, 1819

Broadside (280 x 228 mm). Letterpress text, numerous fonts, manuscript date; old folds, minor creasing along top, one or two marginal chips, primarily marginal spotting. 

A game fit for an emperor.

"The Automaton Chess-Player will play the same game it played against the Emperor Napoleon during his last campaign in Austria, when Mr. M. had the honour of exhibiting his various contrivances at Schonbrunn, by his desire. The Chess-Player has withstood the first Players in Europe, and excited universal astonishment. Although the interior mechanism is exhibited to public scrutiny, no one has yet succeeded in discovering" (broadside text).  

REFERENCE:

Exemplars, pp. 180-183