Frustratingly, the paper copy is every bit as bad as the one in Google. It looks like the original was a pretty wretched copy to begin with. It's about 80% fine, but the other 20% of the pages range from smudgy to almost missing.
Oh, well -- it was cheap, and it's one of those sources I'd always meant to look up. Like most Victorian scholarship, it looks rich in data, even if one must be cautious about the analysis. And it's amusingly heavy on discussion that doesn't really have anything to do with Chess or Iceland -- the topic wanders like a drunken sailor. It's 25 pages about Chess in Iceland, followed by 300 of "Stray Notes"...
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Date: 2008-06-26 09:52 pm (UTC)Oh, well -- it was cheap, and it's one of those sources I'd always meant to look up. Like most Victorian scholarship, it looks rich in data, even if one must be cautious about the analysis. And it's amusingly heavy on discussion that doesn't really have anything to do with Chess or Iceland -- the topic wanders like a drunken sailor. It's 25 pages about Chess in Iceland, followed by 300 of "Stray Notes"...