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xx, 186 + [2] ad pp. Illustrated with plates from photographs and figure drawings; steel-engraved vignette on the title page with tissue-guard. 8¾x5¾, original quarter straight-grain green morocco and pictorial boards, spine lettered in gilt, original red endpapers, top edge gilt. Second Edition, Revised.

Inscribed presentation copy, signed the author's wife on the half-title page: "From Lady Simpson, wishing Mr. Scott a happy Easter, March 26th, '10." "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" - Murdoch. Early chapters include history, praise of the game, clubs and caddies; the balance is instruction. Donovan & Murdoch 3870; Murdoch 699.