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MENU CARDS -- MENU. Willis's Rooms, Friday 3rd February, The Odd Volume [The Sette of Odd Volumes], 1888. Booklet w. 8 lvs. which is actually a menu card: "soup", "fish", etc., each part of the menu accomp. by an appropriate literary quote. 97 x 73 mm. Letterpress hardbound style cover.
Menu of a dinner held for members of 'The Sette of Odd Volumes', a London-based bibliophile and dining club founded in 1878 by Bernard Quaritch. The Club was known for its eccentric and literary membership, bringing together book collectors, writers, artists and intellectuals. - Very rare.€ 70
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