134, [2] + 16 (blank memoranda pages) & [4] ad pp. Illustrated with 5 lithographed plates, including a chromolithograph frontispiece portrait of Tom Morris from a drawing by Thomas Hodge at St. Andrews, with tissue-guard, other 4 are duo-tone; plus several wood engravings throughout the text by Ranald M. Alexander. 7x4¾, original decorative red-orange cloth, front cover stamped in black, spine stamped and lettered in gilt with golfing vignettes, original floral patterned endpapers. First Edition.

Presentation inscription (circa pre-1900) on the title page: "To the Royal Montreal Golf Club with D.D. Lidey’s Compliments." According to Murdoch, this book is actually a lineal descendant of Robert Chambers' A Few Rambling Remarks on Golf, but the changes and enlargement of this edition were enough to merit a change in title and its own bibliographical listing. Donovan & Murdoch 820; Murdoch 118. Old paper label of Maclachlan & Stewart (Edinburgh) on the front pastedown.