19 pp. 16.6x11.7 cm (6½x4½"), original gilt-stamped flexible blue cloth, all edges gilt.
Printed here are 25 rules, a list of members, and a list of Captains since 1744. This varies from the 1888 “Rules” in that it has the addition of a resolution about the club uniform as a 7-line paragraph after rule 25, quoted in full by George Pottinger, “Muirfield And The Honourable Company” (1972), p. 30; a tail-piece illustration on p. 15 of two golf clubs; an illustration in the center of the otherwise blank p. 16 of a young barefoot lad, certainly a caddy, with his hand in his pocket and eight golf clubs over his shoulder, and a tail-piece illustration on p. 19 of a golfer yelling, apparently, “fore,” with his young caddy standing behind him with clubs. The home of The Honourable Company was first at Leith, then at Musselburgh Links from 1836, finally moving to Muirfield in 1891. As membership was limited to 400, exclusive of those on the Supernumerary List, it seems likely that not many more copies than that were printed. Among the well-known members listed are the pamphlet’s printer, Robert Clark, Sir Walter Simpson, Leslie Balfour-Melville, and John Ernest Laidlay, winner of the 1889 Amateur. COPAC records nothing before the 1910 rules. Not in Donovan & Murdoch, NUC, BLPC, OCLC, or NSTC