Title: A Few Rambling Remarks on Golf, with the Rules as laid down by the Royal and Ancient Club of St. Andrews Author: [Chambers, Robert] Place: London & Edinburgh Publisher: W. & R. Chambers Date: 1862 Description: 32 pp. Illustrated with wood engravings. 6x4¾, original printed & illustrated green wrappers (engraving of golfer on back cover). First Edition. The second book in prose to be written on the subject of golf (following Farnie's The Golfer's Manual), with a few instructions as well. The book was later published under the title Gymnastics, Golf, Curling, in a slightly revised and enlarged style, in 1866, and again as Golfing in 1887; the book warrants a paragraph in Hopkinson's Collecting Golf Books, "Instruction" chapter. Robert Chambers later contributed a sonnet to Robert Clark's Poems on Golf (1867). Murdoch 119; D&M 840; D&J C8950. Lot Amendments Condition: Soiling, spine a bit darkened and nicks, a few small stains to covers, front cover yawning a little; still very good or better. An important book; rarely seen in its original wrappers. Item number: 190344
Title: A Few Rambling Remarks on Golf, with the Rules as laid down by the Royal and Ancient Club of St. Andrews Author: [Chambers, Robert] Place: London & Edinburgh Publisher: W. & R. Chambers Date: 1862 Description: 32 pp. Illustrated with wood engravings. 6x4¾, original printed & illustrated green wrappers (engraving of golfer on back cover). First Edition. The second book in prose to be written on the subject of golf (following Farnie's The Golfer's Manual), with a few instructions as well. The book was later published under the title Gymnastics, Golf, Curling, in a slightly revised and enlarged style, in 1866, and again as Golfing in 1887; the book warrants a paragraph in Hopkinson's Collecting Golf Books, "Instruction" chapter. Robert Chambers later contributed a sonnet to Robert Clark's Poems on Golf (1867). Murdoch 119; D&M 840; D&J C8950. Lot Amendments Condition: Soiling, spine a bit darkened and nicks, a few small stains to covers, front cover yawning a little; still very good or better. An important book; rarely seen in its original wrappers. Item number: 190344
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