The Chess Tournament. A collection of the games played at this celebrated assemblage,

illustrated by copious diagrams, and notes, critical and explanatory. London : Henry G. Bohn, 1852. First edition. Octavo, bright red cloth, spine lettered in gilt with embossed decoration, gilt chess board to upper panel, publisher’s catalogue to endpapers, pp. lxci; [blank]; 377, illustrated with diagrams of chess boards. From the ‘Bohn’s Scientific Library’ series. An attractive copy.

The illustrated record of the first international Chess Tournament, organised in 1851 by English chess master Howard Staunton.