Lot # 183: Golfing Memorabilia: Special Cosway -Style Edition #15/ 20, Signed By Ben Crenshaw, Morton Olman and John Hopkins

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287 pp. Foreword by Ben Crenshaw. Introduction by John Hopkins. Illustrated throughout from photographs from various scenes, people, golf collectibles, etc.; frontispiece portrait of Mort Olman from a painting. (4to), full black morocco, lettered and ruled in gilt, watercolor portrait of Mort Olman on inset to front cover, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, black cloth drop-back box with gilt vignette and gilt-lettered spine. One of 20 copies bound this way. First Edition. No. 15 of 20 copies, with each painted inset an original by the English artist Martin Frost. A special Cosway-style binding, with a painting that shows the author Mort Olman standing in front of the famous "Swilcan Bridge" on the Old Course at St. Andrews. The binding by Ken Smith of England. Signed by Mort Olman and the two contributors Crenshaw and Hopkins on the limitation page.

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