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8vo.
, viii, 22 pages, 2 illustrations, set in 'Monotype' Garamond by Solo-Type Upton-upon- Severn, Worcestershire and printed by hand at the Oxford Printmaker's Co-operative Oxford by the author, woodcut design to title-page by Lady Felicity Fisher, original printed boards with upper cover titled in black and linocut design by Hazel Campbell showing Glasgow from the south-west, circa 1740 by courtesy of the University of Glasgow Archives.
A fine clean copy of this fine production.
About 250 copies printed together with a few for his friends of which this is A Presentation Copy to his friend Ruari McLean, the leading British typographic designer.
The inscription reads 'With thanks for much help, advice and kindness, David, Oxford 1985.
' Also loosely inserted are two Partick Press compliment slips each intialled by the author.
(Donovan & Jerris, H4330).
This is the first of four essays on 'Early Golf' by Dr.
Hamilton, published between 1985 and 1988.
This being a fine essay on golf and golf course architecture in the Glasgow area beginning in the late 16th century, and features Glasgow student James Arbuckle's 1721 poem "Glotta".
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