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How To Play Golf first UK edition, first impression (Methuen, 1912) dust jacket

How To Play Golf First Edition

Harry Vardon · Methuen, 1912 · First UK edition, first impression

For a first UK edition, first impression of How To Play Golf by Harry Vardon (Methuen, 1912), the first point to check: Title page: no edition statement between “With forty-eight illustrations” and the Methuen & Co. imprint (later printings read “Second Edition”, “Third Edition” …).

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How to identify this edition

These points tell this edition apart from other printings and editions of How To Play Golf.

✓ Title page: no edition statement between “With forty-eight illustrations” and the Methuen & Co. imprint (later printings read “Second Edition”, “Third Edition” …)

✓ Title-page verso: “First Published … September 26th, 1912” only, with no list of later editions

✓ Binding: red cloth lettered in gilt, METHUEN at the foot of the spine (later editions can also be red or maroon, so the title page decides)

✓ Frontispiece: portrait of Harry Vardon with tissue guard

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How do I know if my copy of How To Play Golf is a first UK edition, first impression?
✓ Title page: no edition statement between “With forty-eight illustrations” and the Methuen & Co. imprint (later printings read “Second Edition”, “Third Edition” …) ✓ Title-page verso: “First Published … September 26th, 1912” only, with no list of later editions ✓ Binding: red cloth lettered in gilt, METHUEN at the foot of the spine (later editions can also be red or maroon, so the title page decides) ✓ Frontispiece… The identification points above show each one.
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