The Art of Golf - Sir W. G. Simpson, Bart. 1887 - David Douglas, Edinburgh - First Edition ‘One of the great classic books on golf literature, it includes the first use of photographs to demonstrate the swing.’- Joseph Murdoch, The Library of Golf.

Dedicated to the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers. Fully illustrated with photographic plates of old Tom Morris Jim Morris and Ben Sayers, and with figure drawings. Scarce copy with the original spine, and without being rebacked.

‘One of the classics of golf literature... a book of great charm and wit, one of the few of the very early books that can be read today with as much pleasure as the latest best seller.’ Cecil Hopkinson said, ‘It contained many diagrams and illustrations from instantaneous photographs, which was the first occasion on which the camera was called in to demonstrate correct methods of play.’ Bernard Darwin said of this book ‘one of the earliest and still the best book on golf.’
  ‘When a putter is waiting his turn to hole out a putt of one or two feet in length, on which the match hangs at the last hole, it is of vital importance that he think of nothing. At this supreme moment he ought to fill his mind with vacancy. He must not even allow himself the consolation of religion’. - Sir W. G. Simpson.

References: Murdoch,
The Library of Golf, 699. Donovan & Murdoch, The Game of Golf and The Printed Word, 3860.

Octavo (book size 22.9x15.3cm), pp. xii 186 [2 (publisher’s ads)]. In publisher’s quarter brown leather spine and beige paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, boards lettered in black, with vignette of coat of arms to the front and four golf balls to the rear, top edge gilt, red coated endpapers.
  Condition: Very good, foxing to endpapers and block edge, archival repair to half-title, in very good boards, spotting to covers, spine edges worn, lettering bright.   Ref: 105483   Price: HK$ 10,000