Edited by Robert Clark
This is one of the earliest books on golf (1875) and the first history of the game. Robert Clark, an Edinburgh printer, did a phenomenal job gathering together all the best literature and documents that had been published or printed up to that time, all describing an exclusive and provincial Scottish game that no one in their right mind could imagine would someday spread around the world.
If you have any interest in the history of the game, you have to get to know Clark’s book. Among other treasures, it contains “The Goff”, the famous poem which, when published in 1744, became the first book devoted entirely to golf.
Foreword by William Gifford.