Product Description
Illustrated.
516 pages with 34 pages Appendix.
This is a Presentation Copy of the Large Paper Edition published in 250 numbered copies and signed by Rev.
John Kerr.
It is difficult to overstate the importance of this book or its place in the annals of golfing literature.
In addition to being a superb history of the game, reproducing many texts and golfing lays written during the infancy of golfing societies, it is the first work to explore the golf courses of any particular region.
And there was a bounty of excellent links courses in East Lothian during the apex of the gutta percha ball era and an age of growth in the game's wider acceptance.
The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, having left their fellow golfing societies playing over the Musselburgh Links, were opening their new club house and marvelous course at Muirfield.
There was North Berwick, Dirleton Castle (where Reverend Kerr belonged), Tantallon, Gullane, Archerfield, Old Luftness, Rhodes, New Luftness, Dunbar, Haddington, Thorntree, et al.
East Lothian at the time was home to twenty fully organized golf clubs.
This copy has been beautifully rebound in original color dark green leather retaining the original green cloth front and rear, with gilt lettering and decoration to the front cover, gilt lettering on spine, upper page edges gilt.
Marbled endpapers without bookplate or former owner name.
All plates present with original tissue guards, typically toned & lightly spotted.
A beautifully crisp, tight copy with bright white pages.
No soiling, foxing, staining, underlining, marginalia, creases, or tears.
Covers protected in mylar.
Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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