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.