To the Society of Goffers at Blackheath

by Lemuel Francis Abbott, Valentine Green, artist, engraver

$35,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

An exceedingly rare engraving, regarded as the earliest dedicated golfing print, and a landmark image in the history of the sport. Published in 1791 and dedicated to the Society of Goffers at Blackheath, Abbott's portrait fixed golf's emerging club culture in one of its first great printed images. A fine impression of the first and only 18th-century state of this print, engraved by Valentine Green after the now-lost painting by Lemuel Francis Abbott. The subject, identified

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