Sale 640: Rare Golf Books & Memorabilia From the Collection of John Burns and the Library of Ron Muszalski, with additions (#640) 04/12/2018 11:00 AM PDT CLOSED!

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Lot 71 of 431:
The Rules of Golf, Charles Crombie  

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$600
Estimate:
$1,000 - $1,500

Title:
The Rules of Golf

Author:
Crombie, Charles

Place:
London

Publisher:
"Perrier" Water

Date:
[c.1905]

Description:

Illustrated with 24 humorous color lithograph plates by Crombie. small title page (printed in blue) laid-in at front, a second at the middle. (Oblong folio) 26.8x36.5 cm (11¼x17½"), original green cloth-backed boards, housed in custom made clamshell box, quarter morocco and cloth, spine tooled in gilt, raised bands. First Edition. 

 

 

Crombie (1885-1967) illustrated this wonderful book with whimsical characters in nursery-rhyme style medieval clothes caught in impossible situations. Each plate has a color printed ad for Perrier bottled water on the verso. D&M 13510; D&J C27250.


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Condition:
Some wear, dampstains, small chips to letters on front panel; very good or better in fine box.


 
Item number:
290646
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