Large Paper Golf Book of East Lothian
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Author: Kerr, John
Title: The Golf-Book of East Lothian
Place Published: Edinburgh
Publisher:T. and A. Constable
Date Published: 1896
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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. (4to) 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, top edge gilt. No. 37 of 250 copies. First (Large Paper) Edition.
Signed by John Kerr on the limitation page, as issued. The rare large paper format of the first written account of an individual golf area or club history. A cornerstone of early golfing literature. Murdoch 419; D&M 3220; D&J K4990. Provenance: From the collection of Theodore Prussing LeVino.
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