Author: William John Clarke Miller (1832-19030 and John Watkinson Editors
Year: 1878-1880
Publisher: J E Wheatley & Company
Place: Huddersfield
Description:
2 volumes in one: 320 pages with diagrams and index; 320 pages with diagrams and index; Bound half leather with gilt lettering to spine and raised spine bands. Subscription to The New Chess Magazine, which became the publication of the British Chess Magazine laid in. Volumes 7 and 8. (Betts: 7-15) First edition.
The Huddersfield College Magazine chess section was superseded by the British Chess Magazine after 1880 with no more published. In 1872 John Watkinson started a chess column in the Huddersfield College Magazine. Eventually the single page column became a small magazine exclusively devoted to chess - The Huddersfield College Chess Magazine. Finally this magazine evolved into the British Chess Magazine which is still going strong today. The columns provide an interesting glimpse of the local Huddersfield & Yorkshire chess scene at the time before eventually becoming more nationally and internationally oriented in later years. In English Descriptive notation One of the early chess magazine published.
Condition:
Provenance from the Franklin Chess Club of Philadelphia wither their stamp on end papers and pasted down. Heavily rubbed at edges, corners bumped and rubbed through, , some occasional internal soiling and pencil marginalia, previous owner's neat pen signature on title, front endpaper loose. Over all a good copy of a scarce chess item.
Year: 1878-1880
Publisher: J E Wheatley & Company
Place: Huddersfield
Description:
2 volumes in one: 320 pages with diagrams and index; 320 pages with diagrams and index; Bound half leather with gilt lettering to spine and raised spine bands. Subscription to The New Chess Magazine, which became the publication of the British Chess Magazine laid in. Volumes 7 and 8. (Betts: 7-15) First edition.
The Huddersfield College Magazine chess section was superseded by the British Chess Magazine after 1880 with no more published. In 1872 John Watkinson started a chess column in the Huddersfield College Magazine. Eventually the single page column became a small magazine exclusively devoted to chess - The Huddersfield College Chess Magazine. Finally this magazine evolved into the British Chess Magazine which is still going strong today. The columns provide an interesting glimpse of the local Huddersfield & Yorkshire chess scene at the time before eventually becoming more nationally and internationally oriented in later years. In English Descriptive notation One of the early chess magazine published.
Condition:
Provenance from the Franklin Chess Club of Philadelphia wither their stamp on end papers and pasted down. Heavily rubbed at edges, corners bumped and rubbed through, , some occasional internal soiling and pencil marginalia, previous owner's neat pen signature on title, front endpaper loose. Over all a good copy of a scarce chess item.