xxviii, 305 pp. Illustrated with 8 plates, 5 of which are portraits from engravings, frontispiece, tissue-guards; etching vignette on title page; plus numerous engravings throughout the text. 8¼x6, original pictorial gilt-stamped olive green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, original green endpapers, top edge gilt. Second Edition.

Inscribed by the editor on the half-title page: "A. Rimmer Black Esq. with the Editor's compts., Nov. 11, 1893" in black fountain pen. Originally published in a larger format in 1875; this being the first small paper edition, second edition overall. Murdoch states: "This book is one of the masterpieces of golf literature. It is also one of the most important contributions to the library of golf and one of the most handsomely produced of all golf books...". Donovan & Jerris writes: "Widely regarded as one of the most significant...early books on the history of golf, Clark's work is a compilation of the earliest literature on the game...also contains obituaries of two of the game's earliest champions, Alan Robertson and Tom Morris, Jr." Murdoch 388; D&M 910; D&J C12790.