Author: Saint-Amant, Pierre Charles Fournier de (1800-1872)
Year: 1843
Publisher: Au Breau de la Revue
Place: Paris
Description
576 pages with diagrams and wood cuts in text. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 1/2") bound in three-quarter red leather with gilt lettering over paisley boards. Second Series, Volume III. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:6013) First edition.
In 1836, fans of Cafe de la Regence at the French Place du Théâtre in Paris, and friends of Louis Charles Mahe De La Bourdonnais, decided to create a magazine, named Le Palamède, which would show the beauty on the game of chess. The French, recognized as the best players in the world; since, in 1834 La Bourdonnais met Irish master Alexander MacDonnell in a series of six matches, with La Bourdonnais winning (+45, =13, -27) overall, and created a fervor for the game not only in England but France as well. The publication began in 1836 and the premature death of the Bourdonnais in 1840, interrupted for two years the publication of Palamedes, before it was revived by Pierre Saint-Amant, his successor in the supremacy of the Cafe de la Regence. The magazine lived another five years, with nearly 300 subscribers, before dying in 1847.
Condition:
Corners heavily bumped with the back heal corner chipped away, previous owner's name to front paste down, some page staining through page 36 mostly affecting frontispiece and title, some soiling and internal fingering else a good copy of a very scarce chess periodical.
Year: 1843
Publisher: Au Breau de la Revue
Place: Paris
Description
576 pages with diagrams and wood cuts in text. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 1/2") bound in three-quarter red leather with gilt lettering over paisley boards. Second Series, Volume III. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:6013) First edition.
In 1836, fans of Cafe de la Regence at the French Place du Théâtre in Paris, and friends of Louis Charles Mahe De La Bourdonnais, decided to create a magazine, named Le Palamède, which would show the beauty on the game of chess. The French, recognized as the best players in the world; since, in 1834 La Bourdonnais met Irish master Alexander MacDonnell in a series of six matches, with La Bourdonnais winning (+45, =13, -27) overall, and created a fervor for the game not only in England but France as well. The publication began in 1836 and the premature death of the Bourdonnais in 1840, interrupted for two years the publication of Palamedes, before it was revived by Pierre Saint-Amant, his successor in the supremacy of the Cafe de la Regence. The magazine lived another five years, with nearly 300 subscribers, before dying in 1847.
Condition:
Corners heavily bumped with the back heal corner chipped away, previous owner's name to front paste down, some page staining through page 36 mostly affecting frontispiece and title, some soiling and internal fingering else a good copy of a very scarce chess periodical.