The British Chess Magazine 1883. Edited by John Watkinson. Huddersfield, Wheatley, London, Trübner and New York, Brentano, 1883. Issues 1-12 (No. 8/9 is a double issue). 432 pages. Complete volume 3 including title page, index (4 pages) and 1 sheet of advertising. Covers not bound except for issue 12. LN 6135. Betts 7 - 27.

BCM is the oldest continuously published chess magazine in the world.

Condition - Good Minus: elegant half-leather binding with gold lettering and ornaments on spine, corners bumped, spine worn and slightly skewed, stamps on the title page, paper sporadically stained, a few mostly removable markings inside, pages 35-38 slightly torn at the top.