[6], 127 pp. 8½x5¼, original brown linen-backed tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed. One of 500 copies. First Edition. Contains a typed letter signed by W.J. Geddes of Golf Monthly (Edinburgh) with his initials, dated January 28, 1947, addressed to golf collector H. Thomae of Trans Canada Airlines (Prestwick), on Golf Monthly letterhead, and original mailing envelope, laid in. Thomae's signature on the front pastedown and front preliminary leaf. C.B. Clapcott was an enthusiastic golf historian and book collector. This book, according to Murdoch, "represents a definitive study of the early rules and the first attempt to trace the evolution of golf rules." Before 1830, there were only 6 printed rules of golf: 1775 (Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers), 1807 (Edinburgh Burgess Society), 1818 (Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers), c.1821 (Manchester Golf Club), 1824 (Thistle Golf Club), and 1829 (Musselburgh Golf Club). Donovan & Murdoch 12400; Murdoch 127.