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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) & [4] ad pp. Illustrated with 6 lithographed plates, including color frontispiece, rest are duo-tone; plus several wood engravings throughout the text by Ranald M. Alexander. 7x4¾, original decorative red cloth, front cover stamped in black, spine stamped and lettered in gilt with golfing vignettes, original 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. Murdoch 118; D&M 820; D&J C8890. Lot Amendments Condition: Faded spine slightly leaning, ends lightly frayed, head with tiny chip, corners a bit bumped; hinges tender, occasional foxing; else very good. Item number: 191843