拍品 53
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ROYAL AND ANCIENT -- RULES OF THE GAME OF GOLF AS IT IS PLAYED BY THE ROYAL AND ANCIENT GOLF CLUB AT ST. ANDREWS OVER THEIR LINKS. CUPAR: FIFESHIRE JOURNAL OFFICE, 1842.
ROYAL AND ANCIENT -- RULES OF THE GAME OF GOLF AS IT IS PLAYED BY THE ROYAL AND ANCIENT GOLF CLUB AT ST. ANDREWS OVER THEIR LINKS. CUPAR: FIFESHIRE JOURNAL OFFICE, 1842.

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ROYAL AND ANCIENT -- RULES OF THE GAME OF GOLF AS IT IS PLAYED BY THE ROYAL AND ANCIENT GOLF CLUB AT ST. ANDREWS OVER THEIR LINKS. CUPAR: FIFESHIRE JOURNAL OFFICE, 1842.
16°, 8pp. (A few letters of title slightly rubbed.) Contemporary limp red cloth (upper cover faded and soiled).
来源
Gowland Auctioneers, 14 July 2001, lot 196.

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拍品专文

THE FIRST PRINTED RULES TO BE ISSUED BY THE ROYAL AND ANCIENT, from which the present day rules of golf eventually derived. The 8-page booklet covered: 'I. Mode and Order of playing the Game; II. Place of Teeing; III. Changing the Balls; IV. Lifting of Break-Clubs, &c; V. Entitled to see the Ball; VI. Clearing the Putting Green; VII. Rabbit-scrapes, Burrows, Holes, &c; VIII. Lifting Balls; IX. Ball in Water, or in the Burn, and place of Re-Teeing; X. Rubs of the Green; XI. Ball Lost; XII. Club Breaking; XIII. Holing out; XIV. Dropping Ball; XV. Medal Days; XVI. Asking advice; XVII. Disputes'. VERY RARE. Clapcott pp. 72-82; Hopkinson p. 28.