Title: The Architectural Side of Golf Author: Wethered, H. N[ewton] and T. Simpson Place: London Publisher: Longmans, Green Date: 1929 Description: xix, 211 pp. Preface by J.C. Squire. Illustrated with 45 plates by the authors, including a frontispiece engraved plate and an un-numbered plate towards the rear titled "Section of a Reversible Course," several are course plans in color; tissue guards; plus some wood engravings and headpieces. 9¾x7¼, gilt-stamped and lettered white cloth. First Trade Edition. This is a classic book of golf architecture, with superb essays on the philosophy of golf architecture and ink sketches and color washes; according to Murdoch, it is "a most desirable book to have in a golf library." Simpson believed that only by studying the "Old Course" at St. Andrews could one properly understand golf course design and construction. Donovan & Murdoch 39430; Murdoch 841. From the Schulenburg Golf Library, Pretoria, with their rubberstamp on the copyright page. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine a bit darkened, light soiling and edge wear; minor offsetting to endpapers, faint foxing, square 1" paper surface loss to upper front free endpaper; still a very good, tight copy - an increasingly difficult book to obtain. Item number: 165418
Title: The Architectural Side of Golf Author: Wethered, H. N[ewton] and T. Simpson Place: London Publisher: Longmans, Green Date: 1929 Description: xix, 211 pp. Preface by J.C. Squire. Illustrated with 45 plates by the authors, including a frontispiece engraved plate and an un-numbered plate towards the rear titled "Section of a Reversible Course," several are course plans in color; tissue guards; plus some wood engravings and headpieces. 9¾x7¼, gilt-stamped and lettered white cloth. First Trade Edition. This is a classic book of golf architecture, with superb essays on the philosophy of golf architecture and ink sketches and color washes; according to Murdoch, it is "a most desirable book to have in a golf library." Simpson believed that only by studying the "Old Course" at St. Andrews could one properly understand golf course design and construction. Donovan & Murdoch 39430; Murdoch 841. From the Schulenburg Golf Library, Pretoria, with their rubberstamp on the copyright page. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine a bit darkened, light soiling and edge wear; minor offsetting to endpapers, faint foxing, square 1" paper surface loss to upper front free endpaper; still a very good, tight copy - an increasingly difficult book to obtain. Item number: 165418
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