There is a very large collection of Free Online Ebooks - including a significant number of Chess Books.
This one is very interesting view of chess in the 1800’s archive.org/stream/chesstour … 0/mode/2up
Thanks Mark that was fun to read some of the book. I looked at an Andersen (sp?)-Stauton game from 1851 after reading some of the book. Google is putting up lots of interesting works.
Russell Miller, Vancouver WA