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[6] ad, xiv, 64 pp. Photograph frontispiece of the author. 18.5x12.5 cm. (7¼x5"), original red wrapper, backed with black cloth, lettered and illustrated in black. Second(?) Edition.

Jackson was known among his peers as a gifted songwriter and poet, as well as being the able Captain of the Thistle Golf Club, Leven, at the time this was written. Of the 1886 first edition, Scottish golf book dealer Rhod McEwan notes, "This is a rare pamphlet with not more than a dozen known to exist." The book contains his famous song "Gouff Dings A'." D&M 3180; D&J J1840 - both listing the 1st edition. The second edition listed in D&J J1870 shows a revised edition also published in 1886. This publication in 1895 not listed by the bibliographies.