The Art of Golf (C.B. MacDonald inscription!)
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1887. 186p. quarter leather cloth. One of the all time classic books in the whole Golf Library. Fragile spine very nicely replaced with a contemporary leather spine.
Ownership signature of W. Laidlaw Purves
Superb gift inscription from C.B. MacDonald to Michael Grace.
Upon finishing the book he showed it to his friend Robert Louis Stevenson for him to improve it, but was told there was nothing that he could improve, it was a masterpiece. Darwin said it "is the most entertaining book ever written on the foibles of the human golfer" Includes the first use of photographs to demonstrate the golf swing, using amongst others three times the swing of Old Tom Morris. Item #14559
D&J S20830.
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