THE GOLFER'S MANUAL being an historical and descriptive account of the national game of Scotland, by 'A Keen Hand',
and originally published in l857 and now reprinted with an introduction by Bernard Darwin. Pp. [vi]+xii+84+[4](last colophon, blank), frontispiece and pictorial headpieces by John O'Connor, glossary, appendix; demy 12mo; qr. green linen, spine lettered in gilt, patterned papered boards; top edges green, others uncut; within plain brown papered slipcase, which is split and tape marked at edges; The Dropmore Press, London, 1947. Edition limited to 750 numbered copies, printed on a hand press on Milbourn hand-made paper. Ridler l3; Donovan & Murdoch 1143. *The first book of golf instruction, originally published in Cupar, Scotland, in 1857. Bernard Darwin describes the author, Henry Brougham Farnie, as 'the first to set forth the joys and agonies of the game and his technical views on how to play it, in sober prose' [p. viii]. Item #114240
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