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CLARK, Robert. Golf, a Royal and Ancient Game . Edinburgh: R. and R. Clark, '1875' [but 1876]. 4° (290 x 215mm). Chromolithographic title border, frontispiece, 17 plates, and illustrations throughout. (Light wear in the margins of the half-title, the plates with some mostly-marginal spotting, occasional light soiling.) Original green cloth, spine and upper side lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, in a custom-made green cloth case (spine ends chipped, lower joint repaired near head, some soling and light rubbing, light wear to free endpapers).
CLARK, Robert. Golf, a Royal and Ancient Game . Edinburgh: R. and R. Clark, '1875' [but 1876]. 4° (290 x 215mm). Chromolithographic title border, frontispiece, 17 plates, and illustrations throughout. (Light wear in the margins of the half-title, the plates with some mostly-marginal spotting, occasional light soiling.) Original green cloth, spine and upper side lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, in a custom-made green cloth case (spine ends chipped, lower joint repaired near head, some soling and light rubbing, light wear to free endpapers). ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES OF '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' (Murdoch). This deluxe issue includes eleven additional plates, and a posthumous appreciation of Tom Morris not found in the trade issue. Copy number 3 of 50. Hopkinson pp. 42-44; Murdoch 128.