Inscribed on half title, to James Auchterlonie from Emma C. Balfour-Melville and dated 1912. The Balfours were a well-known golfing family, the most skillful of whom was James' son, Leslie Balfour-Melville, who won the British Amateur in 1895. "One of the rarest of all golf items" - Murdoch 30; D&M 600; D&J B2890.