The Golf Book of East Lothian.
Dirleton, Privately printed, 1896. xix, 516, [2], xxxiv, [1] pp. + 9 full-page plates (added for this edition) from paintings and photographs (mostly photogravure and/or sepia-tone), including frontispiece portrait; numerous illustrations throughout chiefly from photographs, some from paintings and facsimiles. 28.5x22 cm. (11x8¾"), original half dark green morocco and gilt decorated green cloth, gilt trophy cup vignette on the front cover, another gilt-vignette on spine, lettered and ruled in gilt. First (Large Paper) Edition. The rare large paper format of the first written account of an individual golf area or club history.
Spine complete and solid, often replaced or re laid.
Limitation page is a facsimile of another copy, this brings the book to its full original state of page numbers, but we emphasise that the limited edition page is a COPY and is not being sold as anything but. Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. Fair. Item #10173
Price: £999.00