Wellmuth Francis. The Golden Treasury of Chess

New York: Horowitz and Harkness, 1943. — 321 p.The idea of the author was for a complete chess library in one volume containing all the best games by all the masters from Ruy Lopez to Keres. A sentence or so before each game introduced the Master and drew attention to the remarkable characteristics present.Subsequently the book was revised and updated for paperback readers by I.A.Horowitz who reduced the number of games from 540 to 325 of which 25 were played after 1943 bringing the book to the age of Tal and Fischer. None of the games were annotated in either edition.These pages contain the scores of the 540 games assembled by the author J.F.Wellmuth.
Commentators have said that Horowitz appropriated to himself the credit for a book compiled by Wellmuth.However, from the first edition in 1943 Horowitz and Harkness owned the copyright to the book. In 1971 the availability of Chess Informant ruled out the production of a "Chess Bible " of the type conceived by Wellmuth.