Golf

JONKERS RARE BOOKS

20. HUTCHINSON, Horace and others THE BOOK OF GOLF AND GOLFERS Longmans, 1899. New impression. 8vo. Original gilt-stamped red cloth, top edge gilt. Seventy-one photographic portraits across sixty-three plates. A very good copy indeed with contemporary ownership name to half title and light wear to the extremities. [45917] £175 A page for page reprint of the first edition of the same year. “Like many of the books that Mr. Hutchinson had a hand in, this is a complete review of the game, from a history of its development to a chapter on how to make a golf club, for those so bent. It also includes short biographical sketches of many of the leading players of the day.” [Murdoch] Murdoch 384.

21. HUTCHINSON, Horace G. THE GOLFING PILGRIM On Many Links. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1898. First edition. 8vo. Green cloth, lettered and decorated gilt to the upper cover and spine. Page edges untrimmed. A very good copy, with a toned spine and light marking to the covers. [45925] £300 A fictional account of a match played over many of the famous links in Britain. Murdoch 391.

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