xii, 186 + [2] ad pp. Illustrated with plates from photos and figure drawings; copper-engraved vignette on title page. (8vo) original pictorial boards rebacked retaining original calf spine strip and covers laid down, spine lettered in gilt, red endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, cloth slipcase. First Edition. A cornerstone for any golf library. "One of the classics of golf literature...a book of great charm and wit, one of the few of the very early books that can be read today with as much pleasure as the latest best-seller." Cecil Hopkinson said, "It contained many diagrams and illustrations from instantaneous photographs, which was the first occasion on which the camera was called in to demonstrate correct methods of play." Bernard Darwin said of this book "...was one of the earliest and still the best book on golf." Murdoch 699; D&M 3860; D&J S20830.
xii, 186 + [2] ad pp. Illustrated with plates from photos and figure drawings; copper-engraved vignette on title page. (8vo) original pictorial boards rebacked retaining original calf spine strip and covers laid down, spine lettered in gilt, red endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, cloth slipcase. First Edition. A cornerstone for any golf library. "One of the classics of golf literature...a book of great charm and wit, one of the few of the very early books that can be read today with as much pleasure as the latest best-seller." Cecil Hopkinson said, "It contained many diagrams and illustrations from instantaneous photographs, which was the first occasion on which the camera was called in to demonstrate correct methods of play." Bernard Darwin said of this book "...was one of the earliest and still the best book on golf." Murdoch 699; D&M 3860; D&J S20830.
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