{"product_id":"the-westminster-papers-a-monthly-journal-of-chess-whist-games-of-skill-and-the-drama-volume-xi-11","title":"The Westminster Papers. A Monthly Journal of Chess, Whist, Games of Skill and the Drama, Volume XI (11)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Telemachus Brownsmith and William Norwood Potter (editors)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear: \u003c\/b\u003e1879\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eW Kent and Company\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlace: \u003c\/b\u003eLondon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolume one has the title \u003cem\u003eThe Westminster Chess Club Papers\u003c\/em\u003e and published between 1869 and 1879, volumes 1 through 11 no more published. The full name was \u003cem\u003eThe Westminster Papers: A Monthly Journal Of Chess, Whist, Games of Skill, and the Drama\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eThe City of London Chess Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, writing, \".our \u003cem\u003eMagazine \u003c\/em\u003ewill be devoted entirely to Chess; and we say this without any disparagement of our contemporary, the \u003cem\u003eWestminster Papers\u003c\/em\u003e, 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, \u003cem\u003eThe Westminster Chess Club Papers\u003c\/em\u003e to give it its full title at the start, which was shortened after the first year to \u003cem\u003eThe Westminster Papers\u003c\/em\u003e. This was to be a \u003cem\u003eMonthly Journal of Chess, Whist, Games of Skill, and the Drama\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition: \u003c\/strong\u003eFront 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Chess Collector","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45059305373896,"sku":null,"price":650.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9899\/6168\/files\/westminster_12c0f74e-e460-416c-8e32-55315102d576.jpg?v=1776545957","url":"https:\/\/chesscollectorshop.com\/products\/the-westminster-papers-a-monthly-journal-of-chess-whist-games-of-skill-and-the-drama-volume-xi-11","provider":"The Chess Collector","version":"1.0","type":"link"}