Golf: The Badminton Library - Horace G. Hutchinson

The "Large Paper" edition, which is becoming increasingly scarce. The Badminton Library issued 24 volumes on 22 different sports, for use of the general public who knew little or nothing about sports. Hutchinson was a wise choice by the editor to author the volume on golf, as he was already becoming one of the most prolific and knowledgeable golf writers in history. Second signature (which includes Preface) bound upside down by the publisher.

495 pp. Contributions by Lord Wellwood, Sir Walter Simpson, A.J. Balfour, Andrew Lang, H.S.C. Everard, etc. Illustrated with numerous drawings by Thomas Hodge and Harry Furniss. 9½x7½, original half blue morocco and gilt-lettered orange cloth, gilt-lettered spine, black endpapers, untrimmed edges, top edge gilt, housed in a custom brown cloth clamshell box with gilt-lettered spine. Part of the "Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes" set. No. 217 of 250 Large Paper copies.

First Edition in very good overall condition.