Item #9843 The Art of Golf. Walter G. Simpson.
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The Art of Golf.
The Art of Golf.
The Art of Golf.
The Art of Golf.

The Art of Golf.

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1887. 186p. quarter leather cloth.
Presented and inscribed by H.R.H. Duke of Windsor Edward and Mrs Wallis Windsor nee Simpson, to Percy Boomer Christmas 1938.
Additionaly the book was owned by A.J. Balfour and has his stamp and dated 1887.
Notes from bookseller Stobardt to Buckingham Palace included. Unique copy.
One of the all time classic books in the whole Golf Library. Hard to find in its original condition the brown leather spine is often replaced due to a poor quality. 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. Very good. Item #9843

D&J S20830.

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