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Title: The Art of Golf Author: Simpson, Sir Walter G. Place: Edinburgh Publisher: David Douglas Date: 1887 Description: xii, 186 + [2] ad pp. Illustrated with plates from photos and figure drawings; copper-engraved vignette on title page. (8vo) original calf-backed pictorial boards, spine lettered in gilt, red endpapers, top edge gilt, supplied clamshell box, lettered and ruled in silver. First Edition. A cornerstone for any golf library. "One of the classics of golf literature... a book of great charm and wit, one of the few of the very early books that can be read today with as much pleasure as the latest best seller." Cecil Hopkinson said, "It contained many diagrams and illustrations from instantaneous photographs, which was the first occasion on which the camera was called in to demonstrate correct methods of play." Bernard Darwin said of this book "... was one of the earliest and still the best book on golf." Murdoch 699; D&M 3860; D&J S20830. Bookplate of Dick White. Lot Amendments Condition: Hint of a lean, rubbing to spine at ends, along joints and edges, leather a bit dry, some stains and soil to cover; a few tender signatures; very good. Item number: 306814