JONKERS RARE BOOKS
6 . BAUCHOPE, C. Robertson THE GOLFING ANNUAL Vol. II 1888-89 1888. First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth with blind ruled bor- ders, gilt titles and vignette of a stick-man to upper cover, gilt titles and rules to spine. Five fold out black and white maps and black and white sketches. A very good copy, with damp mottling to the boards, both hinges splitting, and minor worming to the preliminary leaves. [45941] £375 More than just another annual because it was the first golf annual sup- ported by the golfing public and enjoyed yearly publication for 23 years until its demise in 1910. Murdoch 43.
7. CHAMBERS, Charles E.S. GOLFING A Handbook to The Royal and Ancient Game with List of Clubs, Rules, &c. also Golf- ing Sketches and Poems W. R. Chambers, 1887. First edition. 8vo. Olive cloth blocked black to the upper cov- er with gilt titles to the spine, blind borders to the lower cover and floral endpapers. Six aquatint plates, including a frontispiece of Tom Morris, and black and white illustrations in the text by Ranald Alexander and others. A near fine copy with only very slight wear to the extremities and an ownership inscription to the verso of the frontispiece. [45940] £600 Said to be ‘a lineal descendant’, though much enlarged and changed, of Rambling Remarks on Golf, edited by Charles Chambers’s father,
Robert in 1862. Murdoch 118
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