MYSTERY OF GOLF: A BRIEFE ACCOUNT OF GAMES IN GENERALL: THEIR ORIGINE; ANTIQUITIE; & RAMPANCIE; AND OF THE GAME YCLEPED GOLFE IN PARTICULAR; ITS UNIQUENESS; ITS CURIOUSNESS; & ITS DIFFICULTIE; ITS ANATOMICAL, PHILOSOPHICALL, AND MORAL PROPERTIES; TOGETHER WITH DIVERSE CONCEIPTS ON OTHER MATTERS TO IT APPERTAINING.|THE

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908. quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards, title and publisher gilt-stamped on spine; top edge cut, other edges uncut, In the rare original slipcase with a papaer spine label. Rogers, Bruce. 12mo. quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards, title and publisher gilt-stamped on spine; top edge cut, other edges uncut, In the rare original slipcase with a papaer spine label. x, 151, (3) pages. Limited to 440 numbered copies designed by Bruce Rogers (Haas 59). Scarce original edition. Slipcase with some wear, else a near fine copy of this rare book. With the private bookplate of Stuart W. Jackson on the front pastedown (with minor offsetting to the opposite page) and the private bookplate of Herbert H. Johnson on the front free endpaper. Very scarce in this condition.



A very nice first limited edition copy of one of the most important and sought after books on the game of golf focusing on the psychological and social aspects of playing the game as much, or more so, than techniques and development of skills. Table of contents. Initial to proem and marginal notations (printed by the publisher alongside the text), in red. Theodore Arnold Haultain (1857-1941) was born in India, the son of a British colonial officer. He earned his degree at the University of Toronto in Canada. He published 36 books and a number of articles on a diversity of subjects during his lifetime. Printed decoration of the flag, in red, over the 18th hole on the final page of the text. This well-written classic is thought by many to be the most entertaining as well as one of the most important books ever written on the game.



Printed at The Riverside Press, Cambridge. The typography is by the notable American book designer Bruce Rogers (1870-1957), who "was appreciated in his lifetime. In addition to several honorary degrees, in 1948 he was awarded a gold medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for distinction in the graphic arts. Over decades of accomplishment in which he designed approximately 500 books... Rogers literally defined the profession of book designing in the United States" (ANB). Francis Meynell stated that Rogers was."the greatest artificer of the book who ever lived