The Westminster Papers. A Monthly Journal of Chess, Whist, Games of Skill and the Drama, Volume XI

Telemachus Brownsmith and William Norwood Potter (editors)

Published by W Kent and Company, London, 1879

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[ii]+272 pages with plates, diagrams, tables and index. Quarto (10 1/2" x 8 1/2") bound in half leather with five raised spine bands, black and red labels in gilt lettering over brown boards. Volume XI. (Betts: 7-13) First edition. Volume one has the title The Westminster Chess Club Papers and published between 1869 and 1879, volumes 1 through 11 no more published. The full name was The Westminster Papers: A Monthly Journal Of Chess, Whist, Games of Skill, and the Drama and, although a vehicle of the Westminster Chess Club, it covered a variety of recreational activities. William Norwood Potter began as one of its Chess editors, but soon founded his own venture, The City of London Chess Magazine, writing, ".our Magazine will be devoted entirely to Chess; and we say this without any disparagement of our contemporary, the Westminster Papers, which, while it appeals to a more general class of readers than is contemplated by us, nevertheless, never ceases to bestow the greatest possible attention upon that portion of its pages which is devoted to Chess." The [Westminster] club rapidly grew to have a membership of two hundred; and in 1868 it was resolved to publish a magazine, The Westminster Chess Club Papers to give it its full title at the start, which was shortened after the first year to The Westminster Papers. This was to be a Monthly Journal of Chess, Whist, Games of Skill, and the Drama , price sixpence, and appeared in April. Hewitt and Boden were at the beginning in general control, and Duffy was the chess editor; though on the cover of the third number there appeared the statement, in some archaic style of humor, Edited by Telemachus Brownsmith . Condition: Front inner hinge cracked and detached, previous owner's gift inscription to front end paper, British Chess Magazine stamp to front paste down, corners bumped, spine bands and hinges rubbed, spine ends rubbed, London Chess Club stamp to front end paper else a good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Westminster Papers. A Monthly Journal of Chess, Whist, Games of Skill and the Drama, Volume XI
• Publisher: W Kent and Company, London
• Publication Date: 1879
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Chess