Buy this book on-line MAIR,NORMAN: : MUIRFIELD: HOME OF THE HONOURABLE COMPANY (1794-1994)UK.EDINBURGH & LONDON,MAINSTREAM PUBLISHING COMPANY(EDINBURGH) LTD,1994. ISBN 1851586172.
UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[A celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers.]
FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip (£20.00) to dw/dj.Bright,
crisp,clean,glossy laminated colour pictorial illustrated upper panel
of dw/dj (Scottish National Portrait Gallery painting of William Inglis,Captain of the Honourable Company 1782-84, by David Allan in 1787),with superimposed,small colour photographs to foot of illus and
scenic (view of links from clubhouse looking northwards over the Firth of Forth towards Fife), colour photograph,with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Some minor,minimal indentations to both dw/dj panels.Top+fore
-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread example? Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain red cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters and a standing golfer silhouette to bottom edge of upper bd,similar gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain,pale green eps.Slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2-166pp [paginated] includes colour portrait vignette illustrated frntis (recto of half-title),title-page,contents
list/table,foreword by Jack Nicklaus,author's note on previous histories,Captain's note and acknowledgements,12 chapters,caddies,
Captains and winners of Medals,Cups,Trophies etc.,with profuse b/w+colour plates,photographs,diagrams and illustrations interspersed
throughout the text and the book,and an index.Half-title page is unpaginated.A scarce and highly sought after title on golfing and golf history.
The jury will remain out for eternity on the vexed question of which
really is the oldest club in golf but,in terms of surviving records,
none goes back further than the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers.
Descended from the 'Gentlemen Golfers' who played at Leith links (where golf was played from at least the fifteenth century) the Honourable Company transferred first to Musselburgh and then,in 1891,
to Muirfield.
They celebrate their two hundred and fiftieth annivesary in 1994.In 1744 the City Fathers of Edinburgh presented a silver cup to them for
annual competition and in the club's minute book of that same year are to be found the original Rules of Golf,inscribed in longhand.The Thirteen Articles,alias the Leith Code,were adopted in 1754 almost word for word by the society detined to become the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews.The letter of the law has inevitably changed
as golf itself has chamged but,in spirit and principle,the Thirteen Articles are with us yet.
'Muirfield' is a celebration of one of the world's greatest golf courses and the Honourable Company who play there.
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