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 & London Publisher: W. & R. Chambers Date: 1887 Description: 134, [2] + 16 (blank memoranda pages) & [4] ad pp. Illustrated with 5 lithographed plates, including a chromolithograph frontispiece portrait of Tom Morris from a drawing by Thomas Hodge at St. Andrews, with tissue-guard, other 4 are duo-tone; plus several wood engravings throughout the text by Ranald M. Alexander. 7x4¾, publisher's decorative brown cloth, front cover stamped in black, spine stamped and lettered in gilt with golfing vignettes, original floral patterned endpapers. First Edition. Scarce brown cloth issue; most copies seen in red-orange, also in green or gray cloth. Donovan & Murdoch 820; Murdoch 118. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine a bit darkened, light edge wear; front hinge tighter then rear hinge, crease to pp. 93-94, mild foxing to front and rear leaves; near fine. Item number: 162297
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 & London Publisher: W. & R. Chambers Date: 1887 Description: 134, [2] + 16 (blank memoranda pages) & [4] ad pp. Illustrated with 5 lithographed plates, including a chromolithograph frontispiece portrait of Tom Morris from a drawing by Thomas Hodge at St. Andrews, with tissue-guard, other 4 are duo-tone; plus several wood engravings throughout the text by Ranald M. Alexander. 7x4¾, publisher's decorative brown cloth, front cover stamped in black, spine stamped and lettered in gilt with golfing vignettes, original floral patterned endpapers. First Edition. Scarce brown cloth issue; most copies seen in red-orange, also in green or gray cloth. Donovan & Murdoch 820; Murdoch 118. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine a bit darkened, light edge wear; front hinge tighter then rear hinge, crease to pp. 93-94, mild foxing to front and rear leaves; near fine. Item number: 162297
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