The Chess Player’s Chronicle and Journal of Indoor and Outdoor Amusements 1885-86. Volume IX. Weekly Magazine. Issues 257 - 308 (June 1885 - July 1886). 564 pages. LN 6126. Betts 7-23. Di Felice 618.

Title page and index included. Covers not bound (with exception of issue 258).

Missing: Issues 264-268 (pages 85-144).

The Chess Player's Chronicle was an English chess magazine published from 1841 to 1852, 1853 to 1856, 1859 to 1862 and 1877 to 1902.

The last series of the magazine was published in London between 1877 and 1902. In total, 18 volumes and 537 issues were published. The first 4 volumes were published monthly, from the 5th edition the magazine was published weekly (irregularly). Publication was suspended between June 1892 - February 1895, March 1896 - February 1899 and July 1899 - December 1899. Issues 49-343 (1881-1888) were published under the title The Chess Player's Chronicle and Journal of Indoor and Outdoor Amusements and issues 509-537 (1901-1902) under the title The Chess Chronicle. The main editor of most volumes was Charles Edward Ranken (1828-1905).

The Chess Player's Chronicle is a rare magazine, especially its later editions. As far as I know, the 1884/1885 - 1902 volumes have never been offered at the Klittich or LSAK auctions.

Condition - Fair to Good: private half-cloth binding without lettering, title page strongly soiled and stained, index with a few brown stains, stamps of Prague Chess Club Dobrusky,  pages 37-48, 205-216, 353-356 and 477-488 jumbled, but none missing, pages 501-504 repaired with tape, most pages with folds.