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The Game of Golf



Book Description
First edition. HB. Original pictorial green cloth lettered in gilt to spine and in black and white to front, with printed image of golf clubs on a course to front, in red, white and black. xii, 277pp, 19.5 x 14 cm. Black endpapers, hand-cut page edges. With 22 b&w illustrations in plates, engraved from photos, and 27 illustrations (from photos, and line drawings) in the text. Introduction on history of golf, then chapters on clubs, style of play and how to play, general advice (eg caddies, etiquette), competitions, maintainance of courses, and the laws of golf. A Very Good copy. Covers clean with very light rubbing to image and edges, gilt bright, slight bumps to corners and spine ends. Pages well-bound, and clean, with only very l light foxing.. A nice copy of a scarce early golf book.
Author
Park, W. Junr.
Date
1896
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Longmans, Green , and Co
Illustrator
Laidlay
Condition
Very Good
Pages
277
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