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Title: Scraps on Golf - Manuscript album of Golf poetry Author: Blair, N[eil] Ferguson Place: Balthayock Publisher: Date: 1842 Description: [59] leaves. Neatly penned manuscript album. 12x19 cm. (4¾x7½"), original full calf, "Royal Perth Golfing Society" in ink on front by an early owner. A unique volume of manuscript poems on golf and sketches of golfing characters associated with the Royal Perth Golfing Society recounting the skills and prowess of various members of the society in rhymed verse "dedicated without permission to the Royal Perth Golfing Society". Also includes lyrics of a song sung at the first meeting of the Delvine Golf Club in 1842. Passages from this album are quoted at length in the club's official history by T.D. Miller (1935), and mentioned in the volume's subtitle "with a selection of the Golfing verses [hitherto unpublished] by the late Neil Ferguson Blair of Balthayock". The Perth Golfing Society was formed in 1824 and became the first golf club to gain the "Royal" prefix in 1833, and was one of the more active golfing societies of the early 19th century. Titled "Scraps on Golf" by the author on the first leaf and calling for "one illustration by the author", however no illustration is included in the book. 1920 ink presentation from A.G. Heilon to the Society on title page. Manuscript source material from this period is exceedingly rare, a highpoint of any golfing collection. Provenance: Collection of the late Norman Swenson (with respect of the PBA staff). Lot Amendments Condition: Spine ends chipped, some scuffing to leather, hinges cracked; very good. Item number: 217879