The Royal & Ancient Game of Golf, edited by Harold H. Hilton & Garden G. Smith, 1912 London: London & Countries Press, limited.  Subscribers Edition #365 of 900.  Red Morocco cover with gilt edges. Fair condition. Tape connecting initial page to binding, otherwise binding is intact. 

"Quite simply stated, Hilton and Smith's “The Royal and Ancient Game of Golf" is one of the most magnificent books in the library ofgolf. Wellillustrated and sweeping in content, it also includes an important bibliography of golf books previously published." Such was the commentary about this wonderful book in The Game of Golf and The Printed Word 1566-2005 by Richard E. Donovan and Rand Jerris.