The Golf Courses of the British Isles

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First edition, first issue, with 64 plates, 48 of them in colour and each with a captioned tissue. In the original publishers green cloth, printed gilt, corners brushed. With the illustrator's misspelling. Spine, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, half title, frontis, [8], 253 pp, [1], 48 coloured & 16 B&W pls, titles to tissue guards, t.e.g., remainder uncut, book a little cocked, some sporadic spotting, evidence of bookplate removal to fpd. With the loose artists agents inquiry leaf. A nice copy of this authoritative work with its witty comments on the merits or otherwise of many courses and individual holes. The illustrations by Rountree add much to the work he himself being a keen proponent of the sport accompanying Darwin on many rounds. (230*180 mm).