Title: Golf: A Royal & Ancient Game Author: [Clark, Robert, editor] Place: Edinburgh Publisher: R. & R. Clark Date: 1875 Description: xxi, 284 pp. Illustrated with 9 plates from paintings, engravings, etchings, etc., including 2 duotone lithographs, 1 color plan of the golf course over St. Andrew's Links and frontispiece, with tissue-guards; plus numerous wood engravings and facsimiles throughout the text; title page with decorative gilt margins; decorative initials. 9½x7, original gilt-decorated and stamped green cloth, original brown endpapers, top edge gilt. First Edition. "A collection of writings compiled by...an Edinburgh printer, who was an enthusiastic golfer....one of the most important contributions to the library of golf and one of the most handsomely produced of all golf books, even to this date" - Murdoch 128; Donovan & Murdoch 900. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine ends and corners a bit bumped, occasional light rubbing; hinges starting to crack, front free endpaper laid in loose, early owner's penciled signature; still very good and attractively bright, with intact gilt-stamping. Item number: 170913
Title: Golf: A Royal & Ancient Game Author: [Clark, Robert, editor] Place: Edinburgh Publisher: R. & R. Clark Date: 1875 Description: xxi, 284 pp. Illustrated with 9 plates from paintings, engravings, etchings, etc., including 2 duotone lithographs, 1 color plan of the golf course over St. Andrew's Links and frontispiece, with tissue-guards; plus numerous wood engravings and facsimiles throughout the text; title page with decorative gilt margins; decorative initials. 9½x7, original gilt-decorated and stamped green cloth, original brown endpapers, top edge gilt. First Edition. "A collection of writings compiled by...an Edinburgh printer, who was an enthusiastic golfer....one of the most important contributions to the library of golf and one of the most handsomely produced of all golf books, even to this date" - Murdoch 128; Donovan & Murdoch 900. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine ends and corners a bit bumped, occasional light rubbing; hinges starting to crack, front free endpaper laid in loose, early owner's penciled signature; still very good and attractively bright, with intact gilt-stamping. Item number: 170913
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