Golfer's Guide for the United Kingdom AUTOGRAPHED COPY

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Illustrated. 304 pages + xix + folding map. The title changed from "Golfer's Guide to the Game and Greens of Scotland". An early and indispensable reference for historians and researchers as it was for the traveling golfer of the day. The second volume of this series, one of several annuals published in the late 1800s. This six-year run, edited by the capable W. Dalrymple, is of particular historical importance as it profiled many of the golfing personalities of the day and recent past. A wealth of information on golf courses with many illustrations of course layouts; tipped into the rear is a large, folded Map of Scotland with the locations of golfing grounds indicated. This 1895 volume records the events of the prior year In 1894: J. H. Taylor, age 23 years, wins the first of his five Open Championships at Royal St. Georges in Kent England. The tournament is well covered as the opening seven-page article including two large photographs of Taylor on pages four and five. EACH OF THE TWO PHOTOGRAPHS ARE SIGNED J. H. TAYLOR IN BLACK FOUNTAIN PEN IN THE LOWER CORNER. These are not printed signatures. Bound in original red cloth with cover illustration in black and lettering in gilt, page edges dyed red. Spine cloth slightly faded else covers bright with complete illustration and gilt. All page edges still retain their original red coloring. Original advertising endpapers, no cracks, or splits at inner hinges. No former owner name, bookplate, foxing, soiling, underlining, marginalia, creases, or tears. Folding map tipped onto rear pastedown is present and complete. Covers protected in mylar. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. N° de ref. del artículo 202682

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