Lot 52
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MUSSELBURGH GOLF CLUB -- LAWS OF THE MUSSELBURGH GOLF CLUB, [ESTABLISHED A.D. 1774;] WITH SOME NOTICES RESPECTING THE GAME. [NO PLACE]: PUBLISHED BY THE CLUB, 1829.
MUSSELBURGH GOLF CLUB -- LAWS OF THE MUSSELBURGH GOLF CLUB, [ESTABLISHED A.D. 1774;] WITH SOME NOTICES RESPECTING THE GAME. [NO PLACE]: PUBLISHED BY THE CLUB, 1829.

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MUSSELBURGH GOLF CLUB -- LAWS OF THE MUSSELBURGH GOLF CLUB, [ESTABLISHED A.D. 1774;] WITH SOME NOTICES RESPECTING THE GAME. [NO PLACE]: PUBLISHED BY THE CLUB, 1829.
8°. 20pp. Later morocco-backed marbled boards, spine titled in gilt.
Provenance
Captain J. Macnair, 2 Brandon Street, Edinburgh, with his bookplate.
John R. Menzies, bookplate. His gift to:
Bernard Darwin, inscription dated Garrick Club, 1925, on front blank.

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Lot Essay

Hopkinson's sixth but, in fact, the seventh printing of the rules after those of the Perth Golfing Society. 'The Musselburgh Rules are important', he remarks, 'as they differ in some respects from those then generally observed.' They are preceded by 'Notices respecting the Game of Golf' and a list of the club's founding members in 1774. Clapcott pp. 63-64; Hopkinson p. 27 (6).

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