FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK ENTIRELY DEVOTED TO GOLF, offering a whimsical and yet extraordinary insight into the small world of golf in 18th-century Scotland. As Murdoch points out, Mathison's poem was published more than twenty years after Glotta, and it would be ninety years before the appearance of another golf book. The golfing poet's only other published work was A Sacred Ode which appeared at Edinburgh in 1760, the year of his death. This described him as 'minister at Brechine'. Hopkins p. 15; Foxon M-137; Murdoch 503: 'one of the classics of golf literature. The ultimate that any collector can attain'.