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Started: | 2021-08-16 13:36:56 |
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Walker (William Greenwood): A Selection of Games at Chess, actually Played by the Late Alexander M'Donnell... with his Principal Contemporaries; including the Whole of the Games Played by De La Bourdonnais and M'Donnell....Selected and Arranged by William Greenwood Walker. Thomas Hurst, 1836. 1st Edn.
Original brown cloth, crudely rebacked with plain grey tape, old sellotape down central margin of p.132/3 otherwise internally good. pp viii, 280.
Numerous games of McDonnell, including many played at odds, 5 from his match with W.Fraser (1831), and 84 from the six matches with La Bourdonnais (1834). An appendix gives the 3 games from match W.Lewis - Deschapelles (1821), and at end is a 3 page List of Subscribers.
William Walker was secretary of the Westminster Chess Club and personally recorded most of McDonnell's games, including the great match series with La Bourdonnais. LN 3144. A very scarce work. With a bookplate of ECF, Diggle Collection.
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