Inscribed presentation copy, signed "To the Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh, Presented by J. Cameron Robbie, 1937" in green ink on the half-title page. C.B. Clapcott was an enthusiastic golf historian and book collector. This book, according to Murdoch, "represents a definitive study of the early rules and the first attempt to trace the evolution of golf rules." Before 1830, there were only 6 printed rules of golf: 1775 (Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers), 1807 (Edinburgh Burgess Society), 1818 (Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers), c.1821 (Manchester Golf Club), 1824 (Thistle Golf Club), and 1829 (Musselburgh Golf Club). Murdoch 127; D&M 12400; D&J C12460 - "Clapcott was one of the first important historians of the game, and also one of the foremost golf book collectors of his time."