PBA Galleries

2 volumes in 1. xxii, [2], 261, [1]; 200 pp. Additional notes and observations on Perth by James Cant. Engraved folding map frontispieces, backed with linen. 17.5x11.5 cm. (6¾x4½), later half-calf and marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt. Second Edition.

Originally published in 1638, Adamson's Muses Threnodie was the first book to contain a reference to the game of golf, in two lines of a poem that read "and yee, my clubs, you must no more prepare/to make your bals flee whistling in the aire." This second edition, published almost 150 years later, contains a footnote to these two lines and a reference to playing golf at Perth, where Adamson was born. This is the variant with the title page only for the first volume, without a volume number. Scarce. Murdoch p.10; D&M 140; D&J A3090.