Description

Originally published in 1638 this is the new (2nd) edition, revised by James Cant. Two volumes bound as one in full leather (probably 20th century) with raised bands and gilt titles 7.5 x 5 inches, xxii, 261pp, Title of volume 2 included in xxiii pp introduction, 200 pp. Lacks the folding map.Some light handling marks but binding tight and generally a VG copy of this early work which was the first book to make reference to the game of golf. The reference is in two lines of a poem – “and yee, my clubs, you must no more prepare/to make your bals flee whistling in the aire.” This edition, contains a footnote to these two lines making reference to playing golf at Perth, where Adamson was born.