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 by Ranald M. Alexander, plus a frontispiece chromolithograph portrait of Tom Morris from a drawing by Thomas Hodge at St. Andrews with tissue-guard. 17.8x12 cm (7x4¾"), decorative red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. 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; D&M 820; Murdoch 118. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine leaning a touch and sunned, spine tips a bit frayed, and lightly rubbed extremities, some soiling; foxing; very good. Item number: 259435
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 by Ranald M. Alexander, plus a frontispiece chromolithograph portrait of Tom Morris from a drawing by Thomas Hodge at St. Andrews with tissue-guard. 17.8x12 cm (7x4¾"), decorative red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. 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; D&M 820; Murdoch 118. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine leaning a touch and sunned, spine tips a bit frayed, and lightly rubbed extremities, some soiling; foxing; very good. Item number: 259435
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