Le Palamede de revue mensuelle des Echecs et Autres Jeux (Volume IV, second Series)

Author: Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant (1800-1872)Year: 1844Publisher: Bureau de la Revue au Cercle des EchecsPlace: ParisDescription: 576 pages with frontispiece portrait, diagrams, illustrations and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in half leather with four raised spine bands with gilt lettering over marbled boards. Volume four of the second era. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 6013) First edition. In 1836, fans of Cafe de la Regence at the French Place du Theatre in Paris, and friends of Louis Charles Mahe De La Bourdonnais, decided to create a magazine, named Le Palamede, 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 B