Title: Golf: A Royal & Ancient Game Author: [Clark, Robert, editor] Place: Edinburgh Publisher: R. & R. Clark Date: 1875 [but 1876] Description: xxi, 284 pp. + plates. Complete with illustrations (11 are extra and are inserted for this edition) from portraits, photos, paintings, engravings, etchings, etc., including frontispiece with tissue-guard, 1 color plan of the golf course over St. Andrew's Links, 1 plate titled "Cock of the Green" from an 1803 etching, and 1 plate from the painting "Golf at North Berwick"; plus numerous wood engravings and facsimiles throughout the text; title page with decorative gilt margins; decorative initials. 28.5x22.3 cm (11¼x8¾"), original gilt-stamped green cloth, new green endpapers over originals, top edge gilt; housed in custom made clamshell box, red quarter morocco and cloth, spine tooled in gilt, raised bands. No. 25 of 50 copies. "Large Paper Copy". First Edition. This "Large Paper Copy" edition varies from the "Presentation Edition" published in London, in that it does not contain the tipped-in photographic portrait plate of Robert Clark that was signed by him and by John Murray Jr. This copy contains the obituary of Young Tom Morris (pp. 281-284 and not found in the regular trade edition), who died on Christmas day, 1875 and was published in early 1876, despite the 1875 imprint on the title page (obituary with printed date of January, 1876 at end). Clark was an Edinburgh printer and an avid golfer, and this compilation of important golf writings up to the 1870's includes poems (including Mathison's "The Goff" and Carnegie's "Golfiana"), newspaper and magazine accounts, old club Minute Books, diary extracts, municipal records and Acts of Parliament, etc. Murdoch opines that "This book is one of the masterpieces of golf literature. It is also 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 (1966)." The eleven additional plates were not included in the regular trade edition. Murdoch 128; D&M 880; D&J C12700. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear, and a bit of soiling to covers and interior, some tape residue on front free endpaper; very good or better in fine box. Item number: 257910
Title: Golf: A Royal & Ancient Game Author: [Clark, Robert, editor] Place: Edinburgh Publisher: R. & R. Clark Date: 1875 [but 1876] Description: xxi, 284 pp. + plates. Complete with illustrations (11 are extra and are inserted for this edition) from portraits, photos, paintings, engravings, etchings, etc., including frontispiece with tissue-guard, 1 color plan of the golf course over St. Andrew's Links, 1 plate titled "Cock of the Green" from an 1803 etching, and 1 plate from the painting "Golf at North Berwick"; plus numerous wood engravings and facsimiles throughout the text; title page with decorative gilt margins; decorative initials. 28.5x22.3 cm (11¼x8¾"), original gilt-stamped green cloth, new green endpapers over originals, top edge gilt; housed in custom made clamshell box, red quarter morocco and cloth, spine tooled in gilt, raised bands. No. 25 of 50 copies. "Large Paper Copy". First Edition. This "Large Paper Copy" edition varies from the "Presentation Edition" published in London, in that it does not contain the tipped-in photographic portrait plate of Robert Clark that was signed by him and by John Murray Jr. This copy contains the obituary of Young Tom Morris (pp. 281-284 and not found in the regular trade edition), who died on Christmas day, 1875 and was published in early 1876, despite the 1875 imprint on the title page (obituary with printed date of January, 1876 at end). Clark was an Edinburgh printer and an avid golfer, and this compilation of important golf writings up to the 1870's includes poems (including Mathison's "The Goff" and Carnegie's "Golfiana"), newspaper and magazine accounts, old club Minute Books, diary extracts, municipal records and Acts of Parliament, etc. Murdoch opines that "This book is one of the masterpieces of golf literature. It is also 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 (1966)." The eleven additional plates were not included in the regular trade edition. Murdoch 128; D&M 880; D&J C12700. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear, and a bit of soiling to covers and interior, some tape residue on front free endpaper; very good or better in fine box. Item number: 257910
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