[MCBAIN, J; FERNIE, W. ]. Dean's Champion Handbooks: Golf. London: Dean & Son, Ltd., n.d. [ca. 1899].
First edition. Softcover. 12mo (180 x 120 mm.), pp. [2 (ads - front endpapers)], 63, [1] + [2] ad pp. and ad on paste-down endpaper. Illustrated with 7 plates from photographs, including frontispiece. Publisher's original decorative green cloth over thin boards, front cover stamped in red and black, spine lettered in black. Contents page to rear. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Covers largely very clean else for some minor splash marks to front. Trivial spotting to endpapers, contents otherwise excellent and without previous ownership markings. Scarce thus.
Notes: Extremely rare classic nineteenth century instructional and historical guide to golf. Murdoch 508; D&M 3540; D&J M15250.
