"John Townsend" wrote in message
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"Observations upon a new treatise of chess, by George Walker" is the title
of a pamphlet which ridicules the alterations to the laws of chess
proposed
in Walker's "New treatise on chess", 1841.

This is not to contradict you, but just to note that another date for that
publication is 1832 //Sunnocks. This is not a typo, [since she gives the
date twice in different contexts and on different pages] but may be an
error? I'll look for any correlating dates from other sources - She also
adds that Walker founded the Westminister chess club.

According to Staunton, the pamphlet emanated from the London Chess Club.

No clues from Sunnucks, and I rather doubt the the Liverpool Mercury have
digitized their archive, but London papers of the time may have carried
reports or even verbatim copy. I think Spectator was in existance at the
time? Ask Ray Keene who currently has a column there.

Has anyone seen a copy, please, or know where one can be seen?

I also struck out with Falkener's book from 1892, who does not even mention
Walker, though he does bracket the date with other significant chess
publications, with Christie 1801, Gallus Becker 1838, Van Oppen in
"Schachzeitung" 1847, Herbert Coleridge 1855 and in Forbes' history 1860,
de Fouquieres 1869. ~ though these are all chess historians.

On to Eales:
who does say "Whereas the last important English editon of the /Analyze/
was George Walker's in 1832, there were 20 edition in Spanish 1832-1930
he gives date Westminister club 1831, there is an interesting ref also
to the Divan [where is that archive] since it held 'the leading chess
publications'
Walker's business was orig. in publishing and AH! "He began the first
popular chess column in 1835, in /Bell's Life in London./
There are also editions of his attempted chess publication, the
/Philidorian/ 1838.

Eales AFFIRMS the 1832 date for /The Treatise/ 'at the then unheard of
price of three shillings and sixpence, with an improved edition of 5
shillings.' [this ref indicates it was inexpensive, but there was strong
price cutting competition from a rival].

Another potential clue from Eales is by way of Staunton, and The Great
Exhibition, 1851. Though it seemed Walker wanted to boycott Stuanton's
efforts, and he wrote why in Bell's Life.

You might also research, The Chess Player's Chronicle, which folded in
1862.

This, alas, exhausts all easy references.

Cordially, Phil Innes

Thanks and regards,

John Townsend,
Howard Staunton Research Project:
http://www.johntownsend.demon.co.uk/...es\Page324.htm