[6], 68 + [2 ad] pp. 16.5x10.5 cm (6½x4¼"), original printed red wrappers, rebacked with red cloth tape, housed in custom made drop-back box. First Edition.

Leslie Taylor's copy (son of the golf great, J.H. Taylor), his name inscribed on the half title page, "L.J. Taylor." 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. The book relates tales of the Old Course during a time when there were relatively few golfers and is of great interest because it gives one of the few first-hand accounts of how the course was played in those early days. "One of the rarest of all golf items" - Murdoch 30; D&M 600; D&J B2890.