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Chambers, A Few Rambling Remarks on Golf 1st Ed.

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]
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.
Heading: Place Published: London & Edinburgh
Publisher: W. & R. Chambers
Date Published: 1862