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Title: Golf: A Royal & Ancient Game Author: Clark, Robert, editor Place: London Publisher: Macmillan Date: 1899 Description: Illustrated with plates from paintings, etchings, drawings, etc., including a vignette etching on the title page and frontispiece. (8vo) publisher's pictorial gilt-stamped red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Third Edition. "Widely regarded as one of the most significant, as well as best produced, early books on the history of golf, Clark's work is a compilation of the earliest literature on the game. In assembling the book, Clark, a well-known Edinburgh printer, collected early press reports, biographical sketches, significant acts of Parliament, municipal records, diaries, and extracts from the minutes of the earliest golf clubs. The book also contains obituaries of...Alan Robertson and Tom Morris, Jr." (D&J). Murdoch 128; D&M 920; D&J C12820. Provenance: From the collection of Joseph P. Garrity. Lot Amendments Condition: A touch of fading to spine, near fine. Item number: 266377