The World of Golf

SMITH, Garden:

Published by London: A D Innes & Company First edition, 1898

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8vo., xii, 330 pages, 10pp. publisher's ads at rear, photographic frontispiece of the Club-house at St. Andrews with 15 other full-page photographic illustrations, with chapters contributed by W. J. MacGeagh, W. G. Van Tassel Sutphen, and Miss Amy Pascoe, original green gilt pictorial cloth. A bright, near fine tightly bound copy of this uncommon work. Ex Libris John L.B. Garcia, the golf writer and renowned golf book collector. [Donovan & Jerris, H23680]. This being No.3 in The Isthmian Library and edited by B. Fletcher Robinson. For many years, Garden Smith was the editor of the highly regarded and widely read British magazine, Golf Illustrated. He authored and compiled several golf books and in Joseph S. F. Murdoch's words, was "an important contributor to the literature of the game." Chapters, include, Golf-It's Origin and nature, St. Andrews, Prestwick, Caddies, Links of East Lothian, Making and keeping of Golf Courses, Hoylake, The Open 1897, Sandwich, Concerning Style, London Golf, Golfing Etiquette, Continental Golf, Twenty Years Since, Three famous Irish Links, Golf in America and Ladies Golf.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The World of Golf
• Publisher: London: A D Innes & Company First edition
• Publication Date: 1898
• Binding: Soft cover
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