Chess: An Annotated Bibliography of Works Published, 1850-1968

Author: Betts, Douglas AYear: 2005Publisher: Moravian Chess Publishing HousePlace: OlomovcDescription:xix+659 pages with index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's  red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. (Lusis: 5) facsimile reprint of the 1974 first edition.Chess: An Annotated Bibliography of Works published in the English Language, 1850-1968 by Douglas Betts has a total of 2,769 entries in 55 Sections. This includes 145 in section 7-General chess periodicals, 78 in section 8-Yearbooks,  and 18 in section 42-Problems periodicals.  From a bibliographical point of view it is obviously important to record every edition of each work, and this information is very useful to collectors, librarians, book sellers, chess-players, problemists, authors and editors; but here I am trying to establish the number of original chess publications. The periodicals section in Betts is very incomplete, as he acknowledges, and furthermore, it is impossible to ascertain the full pub