xv, 332 pp. Profusely illustrated with photographs and reproductions from early prints, ads, paintings, drawings, facsimiles, etc. 9½x7¼, olive green cloth, spine lettered in silver, color pictorial jacket. First Edition.
Signed by both authors on the half-title page. Short note on front free endpaper "Gift from Frank Murphy, MD, 1981." The first complete history ever to be published of the evolution of golf. With 400 reproductions of paintings, prints, cartoons, drawings, and photos depicting the leading personalities involved in the history of the game and of the balls and clubs which they devolped or used. Donovan & Murdoch 55850. * Also, with 2 other books by Henderson & Stirk: The Compleat Golfer: An illustrated history of the Royal and Ancient Game. 3rd printing. Orange boards, dj. Vollancz, 1984; and The Heritage of Golf: An Illustrated History. 1st Ed. Maroon boards, dj. Henderson & Stirk, 1985. Together, 3 volumes.