The Chess Champion;
Reading edition
INCLUDING
AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF CLUBS, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
OF FAMOUS PLAYERS, AND VARIOUS INFORMATION AND
ANECDOTE RELATING TO THE NOBLE
GAME OF CHESS.
BY
PAUL MORPHY'S LATE SECRETARY.
ILLUSTRATED WITH TEN PORTRAITS ON WOOD.
NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,
346 & 348 BROADWAY.
M.DCCC.LIX.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859,
BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York.
THIS RECORD
OF
PAUL MORPHY'S
ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE OLD WORLD,
IS DEDICATED
TO
The Members of
THE FIRST AMERICAN CHESS CONGRESS,
BY
THEIR MOST GRATEFUL
AND OBLIGED SERVANT,
THE AUTHOR.