The Irish Chess Chronicle

Dublin: Wm McGee, 1887

By Alfred S Peake (editor)

108 pages with diagrams. Duodecimo (6 1/2" x 4")bound in original stapled wrappers. Published fortnightly the first and fifteenth of the month. Volume 1, numbers 1 through 13. (Betts: 7-35) Not in Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana. First edition.

Includes chess problems as well as chess news with a heavy emphases on chess in Ireland.

Condition:

Volume one front page professionally repaired else a very good set of a scarce chess periodical.

Details

Title

The Irish Chess Chronicle

Author

Alfred S Peake (editor)

Condition

Very Good

Publisher

Wm McGee: Dublin

Date

1887

Edition

First

Size

Duodecimo

Pages

108 pages with diagrams.

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