Title: Rules of Golf and Price List of Golf Goods Author: Wright & Ditson Place: Boston Publisher: Wright & Ditson Date: c.1896 Description: [15, [1] pp. 10.5x8.5 cm. (4¼x3¼"), original printed wrappers. Rare, early edition of the Rules of Golf. Although undated, it is glued into a Yale sports scrapbook leaf, on the same leaf as a Wright & Ditson golf score card, filled out in ink by a Mr. MacLaughlin and dated 20 July 1896 (shot 118 for 18 holes). Also glued to the leaf is score card from the London Harness Store of Boston, also filled out, and several other Yale sports related ephemeral items, dated 1894, 1895 and 1896. The Rules of Golf is signed E. Sawyer at the top of the front wrapper, and has a vertical crease to the contents as if folded in a pocket at some time. This is the earliest Wright & Ditson rule book PBA Galleries has ever seen, and predates by at least one year the earliest Spalding rule book we have offered. Not in Donovan & Jerris. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good condition. Item number: 224277
Title: Rules of Golf and Price List of Golf Goods Author: Wright & Ditson Place: Boston Publisher: Wright & Ditson Date: c.1896 Description: [15, [1] pp. 10.5x8.5 cm. (4¼x3¼"), original printed wrappers. Rare, early edition of the Rules of Golf. Although undated, it is glued into a Yale sports scrapbook leaf, on the same leaf as a Wright & Ditson golf score card, filled out in ink by a Mr. MacLaughlin and dated 20 July 1896 (shot 118 for 18 holes). Also glued to the leaf is score card from the London Harness Store of Boston, also filled out, and several other Yale sports related ephemeral items, dated 1894, 1895 and 1896. The Rules of Golf is signed E. Sawyer at the top of the front wrapper, and has a vertical crease to the contents as if folded in a pocket at some time. This is the earliest Wright & Ditson rule book PBA Galleries has ever seen, and predates by at least one year the earliest Spalding rule book we have offered. Not in Donovan & Jerris. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good condition. Item number: 224277
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