Title: Golf: The Badminton Library Author: Hutchinson, Horace G. Place: London Publisher: Longmans, Green Date: 1890 Description: xvi, 495 pp. Contributions by Lord Wellwood, Sir Walter Simpson, A.J. Balfour, Andrew Lang, H.S.C. Everard, etc. Illustrated with numerous drawings by Thomas Hodge and Harry Furniss including frontispiece with tissue-guard. 9½x7½, rebound in later blue morocco with gilt-lettered spine, original orange cloth boards, new endpapers, blue ribbon page marker (as issued), untrimmed edges, top edge gilt. Part of the "Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes" set. No. 98 of 250 Large Paper copies. First Edition. The "Large Paper" edition, which is becoming increasingly scarce. The Badminton Library issued 24 volumes on 22 different sports, for use of the general public who knew little or nothing about sports. Hutchinson was a wise choice by the editor to author the volume on golf, as he was already becoming one of the most prolific and knowledgeable golf writers in history. Murdoch 388; D&M 2970; D&J H28540. Lot Amendments Condition: Faint finger soiling to boards, rebound with new spine; contents clean; very good. Item number: 255133
Title: Golf: The Badminton Library Author: Hutchinson, Horace G. Place: London Publisher: Longmans, Green Date: 1890 Description: xvi, 495 pp. Contributions by Lord Wellwood, Sir Walter Simpson, A.J. Balfour, Andrew Lang, H.S.C. Everard, etc. Illustrated with numerous drawings by Thomas Hodge and Harry Furniss including frontispiece with tissue-guard. 9½x7½, rebound in later blue morocco with gilt-lettered spine, original orange cloth boards, new endpapers, blue ribbon page marker (as issued), untrimmed edges, top edge gilt. Part of the "Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes" set. No. 98 of 250 Large Paper copies. First Edition. The "Large Paper" edition, which is becoming increasingly scarce. The Badminton Library issued 24 volumes on 22 different sports, for use of the general public who knew little or nothing about sports. Hutchinson was a wise choice by the editor to author the volume on golf, as he was already becoming one of the most prolific and knowledgeable golf writers in history. Murdoch 388; D&M 2970; D&J H28540. Lot Amendments Condition: Faint finger soiling to boards, rebound with new spine; contents clean; very good. Item number: 255133
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