Title: Golf: The Badminton Library - with fore-edge painting of a golfer Author: Hutchinson, Horace G. Place: London Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co. Date: 1890 Description: xiv, 463 pp. With plates from paintings, photographs, frontispiece. 19x13.5 cm (7¼x5¼"), later half blue calf, reusing original gilt-stamped orange cloth, spine gilt, black endpapers. Second Edition. With a modern vertical fore edge painting of a sharply dressed golfer of the period. "The book offers significant insight into the state of the game, just as its popularity was starting to increase dramatically around the world." - D&J H28600; D&M 2990. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to cloth boards; very good. Item number: 277794a
Title: Golf: The Badminton Library - with fore-edge painting of a golfer Author: Hutchinson, Horace G. Place: London Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co. Date: 1890 Description: xiv, 463 pp. With plates from paintings, photographs, frontispiece. 19x13.5 cm (7¼x5¼"), later half blue calf, reusing original gilt-stamped orange cloth, spine gilt, black endpapers. Second Edition. With a modern vertical fore edge painting of a sharply dressed golfer of the period. "The book offers significant insight into the state of the game, just as its popularity was starting to increase dramatically around the world." - D&J H28600; D&M 2990. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to cloth boards; very good. Item number: 277794a
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