Lot 101
101
EVERARD, H.S.C. A HISTORY OF THE ROYAL AND ANCIENT GOLF CLUB, ST ANDREWS, 1754-1900. EDINBURGH AND LONDON: WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, 1907.
EVERARD, H.S.C. A HISTORY OF THE ROYAL AND ANCIENT GOLF CLUB, ST ANDREWS, 1754-1900. EDINBURGH AND LONDON: WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, 1907.

Details
EVERARD, H.S.C. A HISTORY OF THE ROYAL AND ANCIENT GOLF CLUB, ST ANDREWS, 1754-1900. EDINBURGH AND LONDON: WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, 1907.
4°, plates and illustrations including 9 coloured portraits. Original green cloth, front cover with pictorial design and lettering in black, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (corners bumped).
Provenance
H.E. Gaertner, Wiesbaden, bookseller with his stamp on front free endpaper.
Lohmann, signature on title.
Karl Hoffmann, August 1926, a gift from Limberger(?), inscription on same endpaper.

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Lot Essay

FIRST EDITION and the first history of this pre-eminent golf club; also the first golf book to contain coloured plates. Murdoch 237: 'Another of the great books on the game, a monumental effort of original research and one that is most readable'.
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