Title: Golfing: A Handbook to the Royal and Ancient Game, with List of Clubs, Rules, &c. Also Golfing Sketches and Poems Author: Chambers, Charles E. S. Place: Edinburgh Publisher: W. & R. Chambers Date: 1887 Description: 134, [2] + 16 (blank memoranda pages) + [4] ad pp. Illustrated with 5 lithographed plates (4 are duo-tone) and several wood engravings throughout the text by Ranald M. Alexander; plus a chromolithograph frontispiece portrait of Tom Morris from a drawing by Thomas Hodge at St. Andrews, with tissue-guard. 7x4¾, original decorative red-orange cloth, front cover stamped in black, spine stamped and lettered in gilt with golfing vignettes, floral patterned endpapers. First Edition. According to Murdoch, this book is actually a lineal descendant of Robert Chambers' A Few Rambling Remarks on Golf, but the changes and enlargement of this edition were enough to merit a change in title and its own bibliographical listing. D&J C8890; Murdoch 118. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine sunned, soiled, and leaning, covers soiled; else very good. Item number: 201311
Title: Golfing: A Handbook to the Royal and Ancient Game, with List of Clubs, Rules, &c. Also Golfing Sketches and Poems Author: Chambers, Charles E. S. Place: Edinburgh Publisher: W. & R. Chambers Date: 1887 Description: 134, [2] + 16 (blank memoranda pages) + [4] ad pp. Illustrated with 5 lithographed plates (4 are duo-tone) and several wood engravings throughout the text by Ranald M. Alexander; plus a chromolithograph frontispiece portrait of Tom Morris from a drawing by Thomas Hodge at St. Andrews, with tissue-guard. 7x4¾, original decorative red-orange cloth, front cover stamped in black, spine stamped and lettered in gilt with golfing vignettes, floral patterned endpapers. First Edition. According to Murdoch, this book is actually a lineal descendant of Robert Chambers' A Few Rambling Remarks on Golf, but the changes and enlargement of this edition were enough to merit a change in title and its own bibliographical listing. D&J C8890; Murdoch 118. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine sunned, soiled, and leaning, covers soiled; else very good. Item number: 201311
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