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Title: Challenges and Champions: The Royal & Ancient Golf Club, 1754-1883. Volume I. Author: Behrend, John and Peter N. Lewis Place: St. Andrews, Scotland Publisher: The Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews Date: 1998 Description: xii, 266 pp. Illustrated with numerous color reproductions from paintings, drawings, etchings, facsimile documents, etc., some folding and/or double-page. (4to) 27x20.5 cm (10½x8¼"), navy blue cloth, decoratively stamped and lettered in silver, pictorial jacket. No. 594 of 1750 copies. First Edition. Signed by John Behrend on limitation page. Designed and produced for the Royal & Ancient Golf Club by Grant Books. Volume II was published three years later. Lot Amendments Condition: Touch of wear to slipcase and jacket, bookplate of the Golf Club of St. Andrews; fine. Item number: 257858