xi, 306 pp. Illustrated with numerous plates from photographs and paintings, including some color plates. 10x7½, original decorative green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original dark green endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. First Edition.

Inscribed and signed on the half-title page "To J. E. Balfour-Melville on his joining the Royal & Ancient Society of Benedicts, 1907, from J[ohn] L. L[ow]." John L. Low was the editor and author of several important golfing titles as well as an outstanding golfer and golf official. The first written history of St. Andrews Golf Club and, as Murdoch states, "a monumental effort of original research and one that is most readable, even today." The illustrations include some of the first in color of golf. Donovan & Murdoch 16090; Murdoch 237.