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HONOURABLE COMPANY OF GOLFERS OF EDINBURGH -- GOLF RULES TO BE OBSERVED BY THE HONOURABLE COMPANY OF GOLFERS, [DECLARED BY] GEO[RGE] MITCHELL, CAPTAIN, LEITH, 27 MAY 1809. EDINBURGH: HIS MAJESTY'S PRINTERS, 1818.
HONOURABLE COMPANY OF GOLFERS OF EDINBURGH -- GOLF RULES TO BE OBSERVED BY THE HONOURABLE COMPANY OF GOLFERS, [DECLARED BY] GEO[RGE] MITCHELL, CAPTAIN, LEITH, 27 MAY 1809. EDINBURGH: HIS MAJESTY'S PRINTERS, 1818.

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HONOURABLE COMPANY OF GOLFERS OF EDINBURGH -- GOLF RULES TO BE OBSERVED BY THE HONOURABLE COMPANY OF GOLFERS, [DECLARED BY] GEO[RGE] MITCHELL, CAPTAIN, LEITH, 27 MAY 1809. EDINBURGH: HIS MAJESTY'S PRINTERS, 1818. Single sheet, printed on recto only, framed and glazed. 20 x 15 in. (50.7 x 38.1 cm.)

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THIRD PRINTING OF THE RULES as listed by Hopkinson. The XIV rules are printed in double column, separated by a double typographical rule. EXTREMELY RARE. No copy in National Library of Scotland. Hopkinson p. 26 (3).

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