Copy of earliest printed book dedicated to golf doubles estimate in Cornwall
The latest Books & Works on Paper sale at Lays in Penzance included a copy of the first printed book entirely dedicated to golf: Thomas Mathison’s ‘The Goff. An Heroi-Comical Poem. In three Cantos....’
The narrative – a poem of over 300 lines reminiscent of a Greek epic – centres on a game played on t…