[6], 127 pp. 21.4x12.8 cm (8½x5¼"), original brown linen-backed tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed. One of 500 copies. First Edition. C.B. Clapcott was an enthusiastic golf historian and book collector. This book, according to Murdoch, "represents a definitive study of the early rules and the first attempt to trace the evolution of golf rules." Before 1830, there were only 6 printed rules of golf: 1775 (Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers), 1807 (Edinburgh Burgess Society), 1818 (Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers), c.1821 (Manchester Golf Club), 1824 (Thistle Golf Club), and 1829 (Musselburgh Golf Club). Previous owner's signature dated November 1935 on front free end paper. Murdoch 127; D&M 12400; D&J C12460.
[6], 127 pp. 21.4x12.8 cm (8½x5¼"), original brown linen-backed tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed. One of 500 copies. First Edition. C.B. Clapcott was an enthusiastic golf historian and book collector. This book, according to Murdoch, "represents a definitive study of the early rules and the first attempt to trace the evolution of golf rules." Before 1830, there were only 6 printed rules of golf: 1775 (Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers), 1807 (Edinburgh Burgess Society), 1818 (Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers), c.1821 (Manchester Golf Club), 1824 (Thistle Golf Club), and 1829 (Musselburgh Golf Club). Previous owner's signature dated November 1935 on front free end paper. Murdoch 127; D&M 12400; D&J C12460.
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