Hutchinson's Badminton Library: Golf Large Paper
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Author: Hutchinson, Horace G.
Title: Golf: The Badminton Library
Place Published: London
Publisher:Longmans, Green
Date Published: 1890
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xvi, 495 pp. Contributions by Lord Wellwood, Sir Walter Simpson, A.J. Balfour, Andrew Lang, H.S.C. Everard, etc. Illustrated with numerous drawings by Thomas Hodge and Harry Furniss, including frontispiece with tissue-guard. (4to) 24.3x19 cm. (9½x7½"), blue half-morocco with original gilt-stamped orange cloth, black endpapers, untrimmed edges, top edge gilt. Part of the "Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes" set. No. 14 of 250 Large Paper copies. First Edition.
The scarce "Large Paper" edition. The Badminton Library issued 24 volumes on 22 different sports, for use of the general public who knew little or nothing about sports. Hutchinson was a wise choice by the editor to author the volume on golf, as he was already becoming one of the most prolific and knowledgeable golf writers in history. Murdoch 388; D&M 2970; D&J H28540.
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