Ansbach. Druck und Verlag von C. Brügel & Sohn, 1920, in German language, first edition, hardcover, viii+482 pp., 580 grams, fair- condition, without inscriptions. Front and back covers are detached from the spin (see photos).

Ludwig Bachmann(August 11,1856 – June 22, 1937, 80 years old) was a German chess author and chess historian. He worked for the Bavarian railway as a senior official. In his spare time, he collected information on chess events and put them in yearbooks (Schach-Juhrbuch), from 1891 to 1930. 

    He wrote 44 volumes of chess events and yearbooks and he was the first person to issue a yearbook on chess. He authored several textbooks in chess history, including biographies of Steinitz, Anderssen, Pillsbury, and Charousek.