[MATHISON, THOMAS]. THE GOFF. AN HEROI-COMICAL POEM IN THREE CANTOS. EDINBURGH: PETER HILL, 1793.
[MATHISON, THOMAS]. THE GOFF. AN HEROI-COMICAL POEM IN THREE CANTOS. EDINBURGH: PETER HILL, 1793.

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[MATHISON, THOMAS]. THE GOFF. AN HEROI-COMICAL POEM IN THREE CANTOS. EDINBURGH: PETER HILL, 1793.
8°. 20th-century half calf over old marbled boards, new endpapers.

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Third edition, though described as the second on the title. It was enlarged by a dedication, 'To all the lovers of Goff in Europe, Asia, Africa and America', and by two short poems. The names of the individuals mentioned in the poems were also spelt in full, having supposedly been obtained from the record book of the Honourable Company of Golfers in Edinburgh. Murdoch identified this last edition as the rarest of the three, and ESTC locates only two institutional copies, one in the National Library of Scotland and one with the United States Golf Association. Murdoch p. 15 and no. 503.

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