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[8], vi, [2], 80 pp. Illustrated with drawings, a photo, ads, and a folding color map in the back. 7¼x4¾, full dark green morocco, gilt-lettered spine, gilt-tooled calf cover label, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, publisher's green cloth slipcase. No. 73 of 200 hand-numbered copies. Facsimile Edition.

Signed on the limitation page by J. Stewart Larson, Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, 1979-80. Originally published in 1898 with a small print run of 1000 copies. Bennett's book is one of the few primary sources of information on the Royal and Ancient (aside from Balfour's and Flemming's), providing the most definitive account of the evolutionary stages in the design, development, and growth of the courses, as well as their condition prior to 1898, the year in which major alterations were implemented. Donovan & Murdoch 700.