B Oi 0; 3i e\ 7\ 1 i /■ THE SETTE OF ODD VOLUMES. MISCELLANIES. No. 15. RE PORT OF A Given at Willises Rooms, King Street, St. James's^ on Tuesday, June 8th, iS86, BY HIS ODDSHIP Bro. GEORGE CLULOW, President. WITH A SUMMARY OF AN ADDRESS e^n Hcarnetf ^ortetic^ antr Printing Clubi^, THEN DELIVERED BY Bro. BERNARD QUARITCH, Librarian. — ^— By Bro. W. M. THOMPSON, Historiographer. — ♦— Imprynted by Bro' C. W. H, Wyman, T^'pographer to y« Sette^ at hys Printing-hovfe in Great Qveene Street, over againft Lincoln's Inne Fields, within y« Parilh of Saynt Giles in y« Fields London, m.d.ccc.lxxxvi. NoH ego veniosee venor iuffragiaplebis. Horace. C^is (Sbition, limiteb to 255 topus, anb imprgittfb for pribartc tirtulation onig, ig prcsmtcti to tf}c iJHcm&cts of %\z ^etU of (©tJtl 'FoUimeji. ijjj tlje Prcsiimt, Brother GEORGE CLULOW, ^glograpfjcr. .Vb. ^^... /^lJo^^J«!.>0 DULCE EST DESIPERE IM LOCO. ^ff (tract, DX^U:,^— Delightful, says the poet, EST— w it, and right well we know it, DESIPERE— /tf play the fool IN LOCO— when wt'n out 0/ school. Contented. Iktroduction Summary of an Address.— "The Great Learned Societies and Chief Printing Clubs of Great Britain and Ireland." Bv Brother Bernard Quaritch Reduced Facsimiles of Menu, etc. .. . .face p. Bibliography of the Odd Volumes List of Members of the Sette page 7 *+ '^^^ •f* ^^ "^ftmpstfal.TlAY. 'yChp'tlresiDfnt of tl)pSfrtf of(^5J) Dolumrs I VanB CX)" Sro.CluloU) ask tt)p tjonour of t^p fotnpanp of at ^ XCjilUss Uoome. ^^ Barnes . aniipiptitpsu '";^ rr^^ -v--^ - , ■ - Olbisroursf ontheSrimtifif anb IrHrnrbSoriftirs of IStrat Britain anb '^rflaai aab on thr printinu ciaes, toUl bf bAoprrt bo tt)p fi&ranan.lWBmiarb QuBnll^ . nntti ftn e\-liihition ot Thnr publirations axih issufi- --^ c-. . — ■ publirations avih jssuf i- (tl.S^U.'P 4'^^W INTRODUCTION. TO a Summary of the Address delivered by Brother Bernard Quaritch, as Librarian of the Sette of Odd Volumes, at the Conversazione given by His Oddship, Brother Clulow, President of the Sette, at Willis's Rooms, on June 8th, a few- words about the Society itself, and the spe- cial occasion of its meeting, would seem to form an appropriate and desirable preface. And as I have, in my capacity of Historio- grapher iox som^ time past, desired to furnish a few particulars of our Society, I gladly avail myself of so favourable an opportunity of presenting a sketch of "The Sette of Odd Volumes," which, slight as it is, might without this explanation be deemed dispro- portionately long, viewed, that is to say, only 8 Introduction. in regard to the occasion itself. Those who know the " Sette of Odd Volumes " only by name, or who are but slightly and imper- fectly acquainted with it, will perhaps be pleased to receive some authentic informa- tion, respecting its rise, progress, and present position; while, I hope, many of my brother Odd Volumes also may find it convenient to have at hand, in little space, just such a cursory but reliable account of our composition and proceedings as may prove acceptable to a friend interested in the Sette. I propose, therefore, to give a very brief sketch, a mere bird's-eye view, of the social and printing Society called the " Sette of Odd Volumes," to state the circumstances under which the Librarian's Discourse and its ac- companying illustrative Exhibition of books originated, and to add some-short notice of the Conversazione at which the Address was delivered. Introduction. Cf)i ^ette of (©ttK 170111111^1^. The origin of this young and small, but not wholly insignificant, Society, like that of many a larger and more important organisation, was almost accidental. In the year 1878, a few friends, — Mr. Quaritch, the well-known bookseller, Mr. Charles Wyman, the printer, and two or three others, — being in the habit of lunching together almost daily at that socially-historical West-end coffee-house, — Stone's, of Panton Street, were there seized of the idea of constituting them- selves the nucleus of a Society of congenial spirits, with no higher aim at the moment than that of occasional agreeable intercourse : their object, in their own words, being " Conviviality and Mutual Admiration " ; and the literary, or, more correctly, bookish element, being largely predominant in the circle of friends and acquaintances, nothing was more natural than that they should Introduction, designate themselves " The Sette of Odd Volumes." Does the title require a word of explanation, at least to some lady readers ? Any single volume of a work, which, having lost its fellows, turns up in the sale room or in stock, in comparatively useless isolation, is known by booksellers and bookbuyers alike, as an "odd volume " ; and it is a branch of the old book business to collect such almost valueless books, so that by the gradual discovery of the corresponding missing volumes, the set, or sette, may again be per- fected. The members of this little Society, therefore, are not " odd " in the sense of eccentricity or quaintness, but each is an Odd Volume only as apart from the rest, and the whole twenty-one meeting at a monthly dinner, thus united, form a Perfect Sette. As the refrain of our legend has it : — •' Yet every odd volume, on stall or on shelf, Seemed somehow or other to speak for itself, — As a single Odd Volume I'm matchless, but yet The whole twenty-one of us perfect a sette." Introduction. 1 1 The professed object of association, mere good-fellowship and good cheer, soon proved too narrow for the tastes and aspira- tions of the members, and oral addresses on sundry more or less appropriate topics shortly became a prominent feature at their meetings; and, not contented even with this wider basis of improvement and enjoy- ment, the Sette shortly developed into a very mildly sub-learned Society for the private printing and circulation of works by and among its own members. The history of its foundation and of the first five years of its existence, growth, and proceedings was written and compiled by the Historio- grapher to the Sette, and was published in 1883, under the title of "■ Ye Boke of Ye Odd Volumes," and being described as " For private circulation onlie, and to be had of no Bokesellers" it was speedily distributed among those interested in such associations and works, so that copies are now no longer Introduction. procurable. The publications of the Society are all limited to very small editions, usually of 133 copies, and have been issued to members only, none of them being for sale. During the eight years of its existence, the Sette has produced some twelve opuscula, on such widely varying subjects as Queen Anne Musick, Posy Rings, Chiromancy, Intaglio Engraving, Hospitality (by the late Cornelius Walford), Caligraphy, &c. &c., and a 'yet larger number of shorter miscellanies on similarly heterogeneous subjects, both opuscula and miscellanies^ as catalogued in full at the end of this miscellany, being now alike exceedingly scarce, or wholly un- obtainable. But while the mind has thus been duly feasted, the body has by no means been en- tirely neglected; the savage virtue, hospitality, has been freely exercised towards foreigners, colonists, and particularly visitors from America, as well as to our fellow-country- Introduction. 1 3 men, and the Sette has thus entertained as guests at its monthly dinners a large number of men distinguished in literature, science, art, and arms. Usually, at each meeting some special subject is introduced by a member, in a short paper, accompanied, when occasion serves, by an Exhibition of books, prints, or objects of art illustrative of the subject of the evening; the Libraria?i of the Sette, Brother Bernard Quaritch, having himself in this way shown many hundreds of rare books and MSS., amounting to ;£35,ooo or ;^4o,ooo in value. A general discussion, in which the guests take part, follows the introductory address. Three exceptionally important meetings may be mentioned, the first, a Chinese evening, in February, 1884, during the presidency of Brother W. M. Thompson, the Historiographer to the Sette, when a large room was filled with Chinese books, MSS., screens, and works of art, and the toast of the health of the Emperor of China 14 Introduction. was proposed by Brother Quaritch and eloquently responded to by Mr. Fung Yee of the Chinese Legation, Mr. Giles, H.B.M. Vice-consul at Shanghai, being also a guest. The second, on July ii, 1884, under the pre- sidency of Brother E. F. Wyman, Treasurer^ comprised an afternoon conversazione^ when the president and Mrs. E. F. Wyman were honoured with the presence of a large and fashionable assemblage, and a dinner later in the day, at which many important members of the Art world were guests. The third occasion was a dinner and most delightful conversazione last June, Brother J. R. Brown, our Alc}iymist,h€\ng then President, when rare books and MSS., to the value altogether of nearly ;£"2 5,ooo, including the Fust and Schoeffer Psalterium, several choice HoRiE, and no fewer than six Caxtons, were dis- played by the Librarian for the gratification of the Sette and the throng of distinguished visitors received by Mr. and Mrs. Brown, — Introduction. 1 5 a marvellous exhibition for a small and comparatively obscure Society to have made. The " Odd Volumes " have two mottoes in ordinary use, which are, — " There is divinity in Odd numbers " (Shakespeare), and, — " What's the Odds so long as you're happy '* (author — doubtful) ; and they are notable for certain whimsical characteristics and customs, their procedure being governed by twenty-one rules, some of them quaint enough. The members, even in their fiercest and most learned discussions, address and speak of each other as "Brother," the President, who is elected at the March meeting, and can hold the office for one year only, being styled " His Oddship " ; while each member has some official title, such as Alchymist^ Leech, Typographer, Herald, Li- brarian, Historiographer, Astrologer, Organist, Cosmographer, Xylographer^ Antiquary, At- torney-General, and so forth ; such title bearing on the real or supposed special qualifications, i6 Introduction, profession, or studies of the Brother by whom it is held. The following specimens of the Rules may interest and suffice : — " Rule 5. No Odd Volume to talk unasked on any subject he understands. 9. Any Odd Volume losing his temper to be fined by the President the sum of five shillings. II. Any O.V. giving to another O.V. unasked advice to be fined five shillings. 14. The Sette of Odd Volumes to consist of 21, this being the number of volumes of the Variorum Shakspeare of 1821. 20. No Odd Volume's speech to last longer than three minutes; if, however, the inspired O.V. has any more to say, he may proceed until his voice is drowned in the general applause." But the freedom of the Sette is not oppressively restricted, as oddly, though appropriately enough, Rule 21 makes pro- vision for easily suspending any or all of the Rules when inclination requires, or they at all clash with the higher perfect law of liberty. The Sette of Odd Volumes is absolutely and rigidly non-political, and although it is Introduction. ly devotedly loyal and patriotic, its very loyalty was until a quite recent date allowed to go without telling, and no toasts were drunk except those immediately connected with the Society itself; but when a few weeks ago a rudely disloyal manifestation took place at a public dinner in this metropolis, it was felt to be full time that loyalty should not merely be felt, but be avowed as clearly and publicly as possible ; it was therefore proposed by the Librarian^ seconded by the Historio- grapher^ and carried by acclamation, that the sixteenth Rule should run as follows, and be duly acted on, — " Rule i6. — The first toast at every meeting to be the National expression of loyalty, ' Her Majesty the Queen.' " And the way in which the new toast is received leaves no doubt as to the heartfelt outspoken loyalty of the Sette. His Oddship the President for the present year is Brother George Cujhow^Xylographer c 1 8 Introduction. to the Sette, and his term of office will be memorable for the dinner and conversazione of the 8th instant at Willis's Rooms. The Librarian's acquaintance with printing So- cieties, and the works issued by them for private circulation, is perhaps unique, while his capabilities for the illustration of such publications from the unequalled resources of his stock of books are little less remarkable; it was, therefore, thought very desirable that so rare a combination of extensive curious knowledge, with abundant means of practical illustration, should be turned to good account. The President has himself, within the last three years, read two highly interesting papers, — on "Japanese Art Metal-work," and on " Playing-cards," both profusely illustrated with choice examples of the respective pro- ductions ; and it is confidently expected that when his forthcoming opuscuhon on " Playing- cards," on which he is a recognised authority, issues from the press, it will fully maintai^^ Introduction. 19 and advance, the reputation of the series of little books printed "for private circu. lation onlie" by the '^Sette of Odd Volumes." The vast and important subject treated by Bro. QuARiTCH, ' ' The Great Learned Societies and Chief Printing Clubs of Great Britain and Ireland," illustrated by the works issued by them, was indeed primarily suggested by the Historiographer^ but his modest proposal was only that the Librarian should address the Sette on some few of the better known Printing Clubs and Societies which issue works for private circulation among their own members. "The Sette of Odd Volumes" now dines in the rooms of the Dilettanti Society, and the Historiographer innocently enough thought that the Dilettanti, the Roxburghe Club, the Philobiblon, and two or three similar Associations, would afford abundant c 2 20 Introduction. material for a highly interesting address, which might be illustrated by a few selected examples of their respective productions. But our Librarian is not " that sort of man," — of quite another kind indeed, — a man of grand ideas and doughty deeds ; if he does at all, he must do greatly and thoroughly : Eagles do not catch flies; and he expanded the Historiographer's simple inceptive idea ac- cordmgly, having also, it must be admitted, at his side a President after his own heart to duly aid and abet him in his bold projects. Of course such a task as he imposed on his own good nature no one else, not the Historiographer^ nor even the President^ could have ventured to lay on it ; he under- took it willingly, cheerfully, and accomplished it admirably, and we can only wonder at his kind effort and thank him for what he did. The subject, as eventually taken up by Brother Quaritch, is so vast, ramifying so widely and minutely, that it could be Introduction. adequately dealt with only in a series of lec- tures, and his Address is necessarily merely fragmentary, a glance at a salient point here and there. But even such a brief, synoptical account of the Societies and Printing Clubs and their principal issues occupied nearly an hour in delivery; and this record, lucid as it was, permitted only a passing mention of the more important of them and their transactions and productions, and must be regarded as a rough but truthful sketch, by no means as a finished picture. Being chiefly spoken extempore, the summary is necessarily very imperfect. The Catalogue, containing sixty-four pages, occupied a very few days in compilation, but in spite of this extreme haste only one important omission is to be noticed, that of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and Transactions, the particulars of which, though prepared for insertion, were un- fortunately by accident left out. 22 Introduction. But the Exhibition of Works was wonder- fully large and thorough, covering the entire range of the subject of the Address, and com- prising alike the earliest Philosophical Trans- actions of the great Royal Society, founded in 1662, and the latest opusculum of the little Sette of Odd Volumes issued this year. Here, for instance, might be seen a complete set of the Catalogues of the Exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts, as held in Pall Mall, at Somerset House, in Trafalgar Square, and at Burhngton House, running from 1769 to 1886, and many similarly perfect series of books and pamphlets. Around the room, too, were placed screens on which hung pro- ductions of an illustrative and decorative character — a set of the Arundel Society's chromo publications, and the reproduction of the Bayeux Tapestry printed by the Society of Antiquaries. So large and fine a collection of the works issued by the Societies and Printing Clubs Introduction, 23 of Great Britain and Ireland has never before been seen, and will probably never again be shown, and the Sette of Odd Volumes may well feel proud that its Librarian possessed not merely such ample stores of knowledge and material, but also sufficient esprit de corps cheerfully to incur the personal toil and trouble incidental to such an under- taking ; which must have been fully appre- ciated by all who saw the hundreds of books piled in due order on the tables which lined both sides of Willis's Great Room ; and all, too, arranged and shown for but one short evening's instruction and delight ; and in addition to this display was the carefully- prepared Address itself The Historiographer asked water, the Librarian gave milk, rich with the cream of nearly fifty years' wide- spread bibliographic experience ; and here I can but again repeat the very hearty thanks which at the close of his Address I offered him on behalf of the President and 24 Introduction. Mrs. Clulow, of the Perfect Sette of Odd Volumes, and of all the goodly company there assembled as the guests of the President and his wife. Nor must I fail to make grateful acknowledgment of the part taken by our good President himself, who in this matter, as in all others relating to our Sette, has proved himself a very true and worthy Odd Volume. Can higher praise be accorded to any ? He is to be warmly congratulated on his perfect success. When, as President, he invited Brother Quaritch to undertake his task, he encouraged him by the assurance that his own share of the work necessary to ensure a satisfactory result should not fail of due performance, and he more than fulfilled his promise. To discover any one with such singular theoretical and practical knowledge of Learned Societies and Printing Clubs as our Librarian has would be very difficult ; to bring together Introduction. 25 so magnificent a collection of the works put forth by such Societies as he did would be perhaps yet more difficult ; while to find the knowledge and the books in the possession of one individual, and to get the free use and benefit of both, was — well, to put it mode- rately — impossible, and this our President accomplished, and in so doing Brother Clulow succeeded in achieving something quite new, and which is not likely ever to be repeated on a similar scale. This unique honour then belongs to our little Sette of Odd Volumes and its excellent President, Brother George Clulow. It must suffice here to say that the dinner and conversazione were in every respect eminently satisfactory. The former was attended by a number of guests, represent- ing the principal Learned Societies from the British Museum and Royal Society downward, 26 Introduction. who were joined later in the evening at the conversazione by a large accession of members of less important Associations, whom space fails the Historiographer to enumerate. The promised Address seemed indeed to have proved unusually attractive to men engaged in scientific and literary pursuits, each, no doubt, drawn there by the expected reference to his own particular Society and the exhibition of a complete collection of the works issued by it. But the philosophers and literati by no means monopolised the space nor the interest of the evening. Howsoever many they may have been, they were quite hidden amid the crowd of ladies and gentlemen, between four and five hundred altogether, who came to do honour and give pleasure to the President of the Sette of Odd Volumes and Mrs. Clulow. The spacious rooms seemed filled with fashion, style, and beauty. Your Historiographer professes not to be an Introduction. ij expert in such high matters as these ; to him one lady is as good as another, and a great deal better too ; but he cannot but hear what the connoisseurs say, and he, too, is not bhnd, and saw for himself what looked like " a dream of fair women," but was no vision, being real enough — an ever- shifting, gay throng, largely composed of ladies, young or younger, graceful, beautiful, agreeable, coming and going, moving to and fro, inter- mingling and separating, — a bright, elegant, happy throng, at whose varied, passing charms he could only glance in simple, pleased admiration ; anything more than this being prevented by a circumstance over which he has no control — his wife. The rooms were comfortably full, so that there was a crowd without crowding; the music and singing, under the able care of Bro. Horner, were all that could be wished ; and everything went well and everybody spent a most delightful evening. The 28 Introduction, host and hostess omitted nothing that could contribute to the gratification of their numerous guests, and they have the satisfac- tion of knowing that their efforts were thoroughly appreciated, and were crowned with an unqualified, briUiant success. W. M. T. June 2S, 1886. •^^:♦♦^♦♦^♦♦^♦:•g^ SUMMAR V OF AN ADDRESS ON t^c (Breat feectrneb ^ocietiee ctnb C^ief (printing CfuBc of (Bteat QBrifdn dnb Jrefdnb. Delivered at Willis's Rooms, King Street, St. James's, on Tuesday June Sth, 1886, By Brother Bernard Ql-aritch, Librarian of the Sette of Odd Volumes. His Oddship, Brother George Clulow, President of the Sette, occupying the Chair. * ♦ ♦ * * Your Oddship, Ladies, and Gentle- men, — I address you to night in my capacity of Librarian, and as such, I do not claim the position of a scholar, but that of a servant of scholars, and a man of business. The Librarian's duty is to help all comers, and to facilitate their studies, not to pursue 30 Report of a Conversazione severe studies of his own, since such would detract from his usefuhiess as a servant of literary and scientific men. Civilisation — that is to say, material comfort — has been advanced chiefly by great thinkers. Our Western Civilisation has descended to us from Egypt, Greece, and Rome. A new epoch in its development began with Gutenberg's Invention of Printing at Mainz, in 1450, the results of which have been so extraordinary and far-reaching. The achievements of the Printing-Presses during the first two centuries of their activity were performed either by individual authors or by publishing firms. The new spirit of association, through which works are produced and circulated by combined efforts, is of relatively recent development, and, in England, began by the establishment of the Royal Society in 1662. on the Learned Societies. 31 The publications of the Venetian Academy, dating from 1558; the Jesuit Relations, from about 1560; the Delia Crusca investigations, from about 1589 ; the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, founded in 1609 and dissolved in 1632, though all anterior and important fore- runners, disappeared after short terms of intellectual life. The spirit of association was the herald of modern science and learning. The establishment of the Royal Society in 1662, in England, was soon followed in other countries by similar Institutions : — In France, by the Academie des Sciences, in Paris, 1666. The Academie fran^aise, already instituted in 1635, and still existing, was expressly founded for producing a Dic- tionary of the French language. — In Germany, by the German Academy, moving from one seat of learning to another, in 1670. Resident German Academies were established : at Berlin in 1749, at Munich in 1808, at 32 Report of a Conversazione Vienna in 1848. — In Russia, at St. Peters- burg in 1726, at Moscow in 181 1. — In the Iberian Peninsula, at Lisbon, 1721, at Madrid before 1726, but the Academia de Sciencias not before 1796. — In Sweden, at Stockholm in 1739, ^^ Upsala in 1720. — In Italy, at Turin in 1759, at Rome, the Academy of the Lincei, reconstituted as the '* Accademia dei Nuovi Lincei," in 1784. — In the Low Countries, at Brussels in 1828, at Amsterdam in 1841, at Li^ge in 1843, and others at various seats of learning. — In America, the United States started various Academies, among which may specially be named the American Academy at Cambridge, Mass., and the Smithsonian Institution, founded in 1848, and now the most vigorous of them. Canada, too, has its learned Societies, and even Mexico and Brazil have developed intellectual life by their learned Academies. AustraHa and New Zealand, also, show, by inviting young on the Learned Societies. 33 scholars to their shores, that they fully appre- ciate the researches and teaching of learned men ; and there, too, useful Transactions have been started, which unite these new lands with the Great Republic of Letters. However, it is my intention to confine myself this evening to what has been done by Learned Societies and Book Clubs in Great Britain and Ireland. These Academies and Learned Societies, by widely circulating and exchanging their Transactions, make new discoveries quickly known all over the world, and enterprising merchants and manufacturers soon take advantage of these discoveries for their own benefit and that of the world at large. It will thus be seen that the greatest agents of civilisation for the last 200 years have been the Learned Societies, whose work is so quietly carried on, that the world at large, distracted by political excitement, scarcely ever hears of them. D 34 Report of a Conversazione As a Librarian I have had to handle the Transactions of Learned Societies perhaps more than any other Uving man ; and I have been the humble instrument of completing and making up to date the Transactions of many English Societies and transferring them by the ramifications of commerce to foreign and colonial Libraries ; and vice versdy by com- pleting sets of foreign Transactions, I have enriched English Public Libraries. I there- fore call myself the servant par excdlence of Learned Societies all over the world. The great advantage of having learned papers deposited in Transactions of Acad- emies and Learned Societies is, that they thus obtain a permanent existence and remain accessible to the whole world. Indexes to these Transactions have been made, such as — I. Reuss Repertorium, i6 vols., 4to., Goettingen, 1 801-21. This work is an Index to the Transactions of Learned Societies before 1800. on the Learned Societies. 35 2. The great Index issued by the Royal Society in 6 vols., and a Supplement of 2 vols., together 8 vols., 4to., 1870-79. These volumes embrace the titles of all papers contained in all the Learned Transactions of Europe, under the names of their authors, in alphabetical order. 3, The Zoological Record, issued since 1864, giving an exact reference to what has been done in books and Transactions in every department of Zoology. It is, however, desirable that a few separate impressions — "Separat Abdriicke" as they are called in Germany, — should always be taken of all important contributions, as they thus find their way more readily to the hands of specialists. The object of my Address to-night is to place before you a picture of the vast doings of Learned Academies and Societies for the D 2 36 Report of a Conversazione promotion of useful knowledge; achieve- ments whose glorious results could never have been brought about by individual action. Learned Societies followed up and utilised the researches of individuals, such as Tycho Brahe, Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Bacon, Fludd, Gilbert, and others ; and have thereby converted their scattered glimmerings of light into the brightness of 19th century civilisation. But before introducing the List of the great Scientific Societies, I cannot help drawing attention to the chaos existing before their establishment, and I have brought here for your inspection a few specimens of pre- scientific Collections, as they contain that admixture of truth and fiction so much admired even in our days by worshippers of the good old times. Among them are : — Valturius, de Re Militari. First edition. Verona, 1472. Very rare, and remarkable as the first book issued with Italian woodcuts. on the Learned Societies. 37 Ortus Sanitatis (Cuba). A popular book often printed circa 1490. The famous Nurnberg Chronicle. By Schedel, 1493. Printed by Coberger, woodcuts by Wohlgemuth. Aldrovandi Opera. 13 vols, folio. Bononiae 1 599-1668. The Hamilton Palace Copy. Gessneri Historia Animalium. 5 vols, folio. Tiguri, 1 551-1587. The Hamilton Palace Copy. FucHS, de Historia Stirpium Commentarii. Folio. Basileae, 1542. The Hamilton Palace Copy. Medicae Artis, principes post Hippocratem Graeci Latinitate donati. 2 vols, folio, Paris, 1567. The Syston Park Copy. Belonius de Aquatilibus. ObL 8vo. Paris, 1555. A curious little book, depicting the first sea-serpent and the famous monk-fish, both unknown to Science. 38 Report of a Conversazione Gerarde's Herbal. Folio. The first edition, 1597, from which work Shakspeare derived his knowledge of Botany. The English Physician. Enlarged by N. Culpeper, Gent. Student in Physick and Astrology. 1661. Before proceeding to my List of the Learned Societies and Printing Clubs, and the works issued by them, with such cursory remarks as I may have to make thereon, I am tempted to offer you some observations Q\\ the subject of Witchcraft. That this is a pure digression I must candidly acknowledge, and I ask you to excuse it. My attention has been drawn to the subject by the fact that even so late as 1667, Joseph Glanvil, himself an eminent member of the Royal Society, then but recently founded, was a sincere and earnest believer in the existence and powers of witches, and contributed largely to the copious and curious literature which has on the Learned Societies. 39 grown around that ancient, wide-spread, baleful superstition. This fact may well serve to show what need there was for the establishment and operations of Learned Societies and Printing Clubs. Witchcraft was not a product of Christi- anity, although brought into apparent con- nexion with it through the influence of the Old Testament. A popular superstition in all ages, and consequently existent in the middle ages under the domination of the Roman Church, it was not prevalent with the sanction of the Church, which did not view with favour any discussion of the subject by men of position. The earliest reformers of the Church in the sixteenth century were succeeded by men of more violent and bigoted nature, who formed Calvinism and Hugtienofry on the Continent, and in England succeeded in establishing Puritanism as a powerful sect hostile to the milder Protestantism of the English Church. 40 Report of a Conversazione The basis of Puritan doctrine lay in the revival of the traditions and practices of the Jews, i.e.^ the Old Testament, and combining them as a living force with the mere fact of Revelation as it appeared in the New Testament. 1530 As the Jewish Old Testament speaks of witches and their punishment, so all Cal- vinist and Puritan ideas and literature became imbued with the same matter, and consequently the men of education and learning found themselves for once in harmony with the peasants, who had retained their ancient heathen superstitions. 1563 One of the earliest men to protest against the fostering of the doctrine of Witchcraft was Dr. Johannes Weyer^ or Wierus^ of Brabant, who won for himself the reputation of a heretic and a sorcerer by writing " de F?'aesHgns Dccmonum,'^ 8vo., Basil. 1563, in which he protested againt the belief in Witchcraft, and held that impostures and on the Learned Societies. 41 diseased minds were to blame for a great deal of the excitement and delusions. Dr. John Dee, a very learned man, who 1580 became the dupe of his own powers and of etc. tricksters, in adopting the notion that he held communion with spirits, as recorded in the '•''Relation of what passed^ etc.," pubhshed in folio, 1659, with a preface by Meric Casaubon, plainly shows his halluci- nation. In England Reginald Scot^ a. Kentishman, 1584 who had been at Oxford, and who cultivated hops and wrote the *' Perfect Platform of a Hop-garden," printed in 1574 and 1578, protested in a similar and even more enlight- ened strain against the Witchcraft-mongers, all Puritans, it must be observed, in his '■'■ Discoverie of Witchcraft^'' 4to., 1584. The second edition, in 165 1, 4to., is a simple reprint ; the third, folio, 1665, has a quantity of absurdly incongruous matter added by a believer in Witchcraft. 42 Report of a Conversazione 1597 The Puritans were vindicated hy James /., 1603 who, while still James VI. of Scotland, pub- hshed his " Dcemo7iologie^^^ 4to,, at Edinburgh, 1597, — and had it reprinted, also in 4to., at London in 1603, when he became James I. of England. He then also caused an Act of Parliament to be passed for the persecution of Witches (Statute i James I.), and ordered all copies that could be found of Scot's work to be burned. This Act remained in force till 1735, when it was repealed. 1 6 10 William Perkins^ a Puritan Divine, of great ability and learning, and a Cambridge University man, wrote a " Discourse on the Damned Art of Witchcraft,'' 8vo., Cam- bridge, 16 10, in which he asserted that the witch or wizard who employed sorcery for the benefit of his fellow-creatures was a more horrible monster than the one who used it for their injury. 1613 Thomas Potts, in the ^^ Wonderful Dis- coverie of Witches in the County of Lancaster^' 071 the Learned Societies. 43 4to., 16 1 3, describes the nineteen Lancashire Witches who had recently been put to death. Richard Bernard., a Puritan Divine and 1627 Cambridge man, wrote a " Guide for Grand Jurymen with respect to Witches^'' in 1627, maintaining the popular belief, and abusing Scot. The Essex Witches^ seventeen women, 1645 were all put to death by the judgment of Lord Warwick, Sir Harbottle Grimstone, and Sir Thomas Bowes, and other judges. Sir Thomas Bowes himself gave some silly hearsay evidence against them from the bench. This case brought out Matthew ILopkins, the professional witch-finder. Two batches of Kent Witches, altogether 1645 nine women, were executed. 1652 Matthew Hopkins printed his tests for 1647 the Discovery of Witches, pointing out where secret marks were to be looked for, and what kind of tortures should be applied, etc. 44 Report of a Conversazione 1659 Meric Casaiihon's preface to Dr. Dee's book, already mentioned, shows the blind, bigoted superstition of a really learned man, who as a good Calvinistic divine fully believed in Witchcraft. 1664 The famous judge. Sir Matthew Hale sentenced two poor women, Suffolk witches to death at Bury St. Edmunds. They were hanged. 1667 Joseph Glanvil, a man of great learning and ability, one of the shining lights of the Royal Society published " Philosophical Considerations touching Witches and Witch- craft in a letter to Robert Hunt^^^ 1667, 8vo. ; and in his " Sadducismus Triumpha- tus" 8vo., 1 68 1, repeated his views. He was a zealous believer, and wished to exterminate witches. 1672 Louis XIV. ordered the release of all persons then in prison accused of Witchcraft, and changed the penalty for that crime from death to banishment. on the Learned Societies. 45 John Webster^ a clergyman of great mental 1677 power and learning, wrote the " Discovery of Supposed Witchcrafts'^ folio, 1677, admitting the possibility of Witchcraft, but assigning most of the modern instances to delusion or imposture. The Devonshire Witches^ three poor 1682 women, were hanged, either at Bideford or at Exeter, and are said to have been the last put to death in England. The New England Witches were put to j^q^ death in large numbers during a few years, etc. by the Puritan saints, under the enlightened guidance of Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, and others. The Renfrewshire Witches, three men and 1696 four women, were first half-hanged and then burned at Paisley. Jane Wenham, the Hertfordshire Witch, 17 12 was sentenced to death in 17 12, but not executed. She was finally pardoned, owing to the good sense of the judge, Justice 46 Report of a Conversazione Powell. Her case produced a number of treatises for and against the belief in witches. 1 718 Francis Hutchinson wrote an Historical ^12o Accoujit of \N'\ic\\cx2St^ defending the belief in it, and insisting on the justice of putting witches to death. He gave a list of all who had been exterminated up to date in New England. 1722 The Sheriff of Sutherlandshire, in Scotland, sentenced a witch to death, and this was the last case of execution for Witchcraft in Scotland. 1 7 30 Defoe, under the name of Andrew Moreton^ in his '■^ History of Apparitions^^ and ^''System of Magic^' ridiculed the still surviving superstition. In now resuming the proper subject of this Address, and referring you to my List of the Great Societies, only a few words here and there will be required of me in reference to the more important of these Associations. And first and foremost, it is impossible for 011 the Learned Societies. 47 me to speak without emotion and veneration of that noble institution, the Royal Societyr which has done so much to stimulate the discovery and to further the dissemination of scientific truth, during so long a period and over so wide a space, — a truly worthy Corpo- ration, whose splendid honours are not to be bought by wealth nor snatched by power, but remain the ardently coveted rewards of scientific merit alone, to be conferred only as the meed and stamp of honest study, of high attainments, and of genuine work, so that the title F.R.S. is everywhere recognised as an honourable and illustrious distinction. Its Transactions and Proceedings, distri- buted over the entire globe, have been most effective promoters of our 19th century civilisation. This, the earliest great learned body, incorporated two centuries and a quarter ago (1662), has also proved a pro- lific parent society, from which have sprung the Linnean Society (1788), with its cognate 48 Report of a Conversazione Society, the Zoological (1826) ; and the Geological (1807), with its offshoot, the Palaeontographical (1847) ; the Institution of Civil Engineers (18 18), the British Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science (1831), with its nomadic, pic-nicy annual meeting each year in "fresh woods and pastures new;" the Ethnological (1843), ^^^ ^'^• thropological (1863) Societies,^ since 1871 combined into the one Anthropological Institute ; these and many smaller Scientific and Literary Societies have descended more or less directly from the grand old Royal Society. And the mention of the above important and influential Associations reminds me of the fact, interesting in itself and highly creditable to the Learned Societies, that in their quest and propagation of knowledge they have been quite free from the unworthy spirit of persecution : the odhwi theologicutn has found no counterpart among these votaries on the Learned Societies. 49 of science, who have shown a wise and generous toleration of those who have, like themselves, been prosecuting the search after truth, though perhaps in ways and by methods differing from their own. Here, too, in passing reference to the Anthropological Society, I may perhaps be allowed to correct the vulgar error that the late Mr. Darwin traces the origin of man directly to monkeys. It is well to be correct, even in such trifles as matters of pedigree, and to be just even to monkeys. Mr. Darwin, then, does not derive mankind from monkeys exactly, but, rather, both men and monkeys alike from a common ancestor. We are in fact merely collateral branches of the same ancient family \ but as our human branch — no uncommon thing — has risen very much higher in the world than the other, we should naturally ignore the apes and the baboons as much as civility, facts, and circumstances will allow. There is really, therefore, no £ 50 Report of a Conversazione reason to suppose that Mr. Darwin prided himself on being a monkey. Before altogether leaving the Scientific Bodies, I may take this opportunity of making favourable mention of a very good Society, the Cambridge Philosophical (1822), which was inadvertently omitted from my printed List, and whose Transactions led to the formation of the Mathematical Societies of London, Dublin, Oxford and Cambridge. Proceeding now to the Archaeological and Historical Societies, which are very nu- merous, we have the great old Society of Antiquaries, projected if not formed by Archbishop Parker (1572), revived in 1707, and formally incorporated in 1751, from which have arisen, in London, the British Archaeological Association (1843), and the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain (1843); while among kindred Societies devoted to branches of this wide-ranging subject, the Numismatic (1836), the Camden (1838), and &n the Learned Societies, 51 Harleian (1869), deserve special recognition. But the spirit of Archaeological study and research has spread over all England, and while, in the north, the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle on Tyne (18 13), the Surtees Society at Durham (1834), and theChetham Society at Manchester (1843), have been large and flourishing Associations, it will be seen from my List how many English counties have maintained for themselves separate local Archaeological Societies. The two hundred and twenty-three volumes of " The Gentleman's Magazine," extending from 1 731 to 1868, — when a new series of a different character commenced, — form a veritable mine of Historical and Anti- quarian wealth. The Oriental Societies next demand attention, but time forbids other than the briefest notice of even the principal of them. The earliest, the Asiatic Society of Bengal, was instituted at Calcutta in 1784, and had E 2 52 Report of a Cofiversaziane for its first President that admirable and singularly accomplished man, Sir William Jones, the first scholar who really unravelled the mysteries of the Sanscrit language, the preceding essays of the Propaganda having been mere fanciful rhapsodies. Akin to this Society, of which, indeed, it represented the British branch, is the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1&23). The old East India Company, too, ever proved a true and liberal patron of Oriental scholars, and under its auspices Professor Max Miiller brought out his great work, the " Rig Veda," in six volumes quarto, founded on the collation of about a hundred manuscripts. Time fails me to do more than touch on the Fine Art Societies, which include the Royal Academy of Arts (1769), a complete set of whose Catalogues from that year down to the present I show; or the Arundel Society, whose chromolithographs hang before you, and of which I have lately sent similar vn the Learned Socieiies. 53 complete sets to a Fine Art School in Japan and to a Ladies' College in Massachusets. The Printing Clubs, too, must bedismissed with like scant mention. The Dilettanti Society (1734) has rendered excellent service by the encouragement of Art in directions which might otherwise have been neglected, as not being either fashionable or com- mercially profitable ; while we are in the same way indebted to the Roxburghe Club (i8i2)for valuable aid in the printing and issue of many interesting and curious works which might not otherwise have been produced. The Philobiblon Society (1853), a more recent Printing Club of the same kind, has, I understand, just come to a comparatively untimely end, after only thirty-two years' existence. Wholly omitting a number of Societies of more or less importance and merit, whose names appear in my List, and among them the Sette of Odd Volumes itself, I will 54 Report of a Conversazione. detain you for but one moment longer, to add a word of hearty praise to the Trustees of the British Museum, that magnificent National Institution, for their excellent publications, with their very valuable classifi- cations of animals. And so I bring this Address to a close, with my sincere thanks to you all for your patient and courteous attention. DIM- NEK °f ^^^ ^EffE ©■=• ODD / # I 11 sauce PtiucJ^t ' ;»^rnp»qnons , JUNC 8. k886 ^ ^ THE Sette of Odd Volumes SOIREE, JUNE 8th, 1886. 8.0 p.m.— deception. 8.45 p.m. —Discourse on tl^ C«arneb Societies anb Printing Clubs of (Srcnt Britain anb 3"^^^'*"^' BY DRO. BERNAitl) QUAklTCll 9.3() p.m. — ZHusic —Programme. 5. PrANOKOHTK S<>U<> 6. DUKT - H'.rnSi.i... renek>pc Mk VINCENT STEVENS AMI> Mk BUKSHAM HORNER " Ra^e lliou Angry Storm " Mk. frank litESON. ( a. ■■ Wandorstunden, No 2" 1 \ I- 'Diejagd, Op 5 ( Maolle. IJLY VON KORNATZ.KI ' ' Rodoupn Lovi- Sung " Mk. EDMUND ROSENTHAI. " Dans les Bois " Miss VIOLET WVMAN. •' Lii'd der Vogclein ■' MIS.SR.S NANNIE ANI. GERTIE QUARl HH. ■ 1 )nly Once More ' Mr K 1, JORDAN. INTERVAL-VARIA. Hcttcr DKllKTt SoUJ Mlss kujrence rosenthai. 4- Mk. H. J (;OR DON ROSS. J J. •• Niiclitsiilck • I I *. " l^ Regata Venezinna " ( Mr. EDWARD CHADKIKLD. " Awaku I Awake ! " Mk. KKANK IRICSON. [Harm Otligal,' MR. K. I. JORDAN. " Fnar »f Ornb. L B. (©. A Biographical and Bibliographical FragmenL 32 Pages. Presented on November the 5th, 1880, by His Oddship C W. H, Wyman. ist Edition limited to 25 copies. (Subsequently enlarged to 50 copies. ) II. ^loi^sJograpIjia ^nglicana. BythelateJ.TROTTER BrocketTjF.S. A., Londonand New- castle, author of "Glossary of North Country Words," to which is prefixed a Biographical Sketch of the Author by Frederick Bloomer. ^4 Pages. Presented on July the 7th, 1882, by His Oddship Bernard Quaritch. Edition limited to 150 copies. Bihliography of Odd Volumes. III. ge 53ofee of ge (©tJir ToUimtS from 1878 to 1883. Carefvlly C<7^«/>/7^r/and painsfvlly ^'rfzV^rf by y^ vnworthj- Historiographer to y^ Sette, Brother and Vice-President Vfit-iA AM Mort Thompson, and produced by y* order and at y« charges of Hys Oddship y" President and Librarian of y« Sette, Bro. Bernard Quaritch. (pp. ij6.) Presented on April the 13th, 1883, by His Oddship Bernard Quaritch. Edition limited to 150 copies. IV. Eobe^ (^arlantj; Or Posies for Rings, Hand-kerchers, & Gloves, and such pretty Tokens that Lovers send their Loves. London, 1674. A Reprint. And Ye Garland of Ye Odd Volumes, (pp. 102,) Presented on October the 12th, 1883, by Bro. James Roberts Brown. Edition limited to 250 copies. V. (©men %\mt iHflujfufe. A brief Accompt of y« genuine Article, those who performed y^ same, and y* Masters in y* facultie. From 1702 to 1714. (pp.40.) Presented on July the 13th, 1883, by Bro. Burnham W. Horner. Edition limited to 100 copies, VI. ^ Vtxv> (ma Sream. Related by His Oddship Bro. W. M. Thompson, President of the Sette of Odd Volumes, at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, on June 1st, 1883. (pp. 26.) Pre- sented on July the 13th, 1883, by His Oddship W. Mort Thompson. Edition limited to 250 copies. VII. CotJc)r Ci^iromantiae. Being a Compleate Manualle of y^ Science and Arte of Expoundynge y« Past, y* Presente, y* Future, and ye Charactere, by y« Scrutinie of y" Hande, y« Gestures thereof, and y"^ Chirographic. Codicillus I. -Chirognomy (jpp. 118.) Presented on November the 2nd, 1883, by Bro. Eu. Heron-Allen. Edition limited to 133 copies. Bibliography of Odd Volumes. VIII. ^fntaalio lEugiabmg: ^a£it anlJ An Address by Bro. Edward Renton, delivered at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, on December 5, 1884. (pp. 74.) Presented to the Sette by His Oddship Edward F. Wvman. Edition limited to 200 copies. IX. Ci)e taiglbtsf, "Bxiiiti, (!^bligation^, airt ^Kbantagej; of l^oielpitalitp. An Address by Bro. Cornelius Walford, F.I. A., F. S.S.J F.R.Hist.Soc, Barrister-at-Law, Master of the Rolls in the Sette of Odd Volumes, delivered at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, on Friday, February 5, 1885. (pp. 72.) Presented to the Sette by His Oddship Edward F. Wvman. Edition limited to 133 copies. X. ** ^en£(, ln% ant( ^apetr : '' a iSisKourflit upon Caligrap^j). The Implements and Practice of Writing, both Ancient and Modem, with Curiosa, and an Appendix of famous English Penmen, by Bro. Daniel W. Kettle, F.R.G.S., Cosmo- grapher ; delivered at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, on Friday, November 6th, 1885. (pp. 104.) Presented to the Sette on January 8th, 1886, by Bro. Daniel W. Kettle. Edition limited to 233 copies. XI. (^n ^ome of tf)f ?3oofe£{ for €^x\tixtn of tje Ea^t Centurp. With a few Words on the Philanthropic Publisher of St. Paul's Churchyard. A paper read at a Meeting of the Sette of Odd Volumes by Brother Charles Welsh, Chapman of the Sette, at the Freemasons' Tavern, on Friday, the 8th day of January, 1886. Presented to the Sette by Brother Charles Welsh. Edition limited to 250 copies. MISCELLANIES. 1. ^[nauguval ^tltJrt^tf of His Oddship, W. M. Thompson, Fourth President of the Sette of Odd Volumes, delivered at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, on his taking office on April 13th, 1883, &c. (pp. 31.) Printed by order of Ye Sette, and issued on May the 4th, 1883. Edition limited to 350 copies. 2. . €otit}: Cf)iromanttae. Appendix A. Dactylomancy, or Finger-ring Magic, Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern, (pp. 34.) Presented on October the 12th, 1883, by Bro. Ed. Heron-Allen. Edition limited to 133 copies. 3. ^ Pre^itfent'j; ^trsliflage. Spoken by His Oddship W. M. Thompson, Fourth President of the Sette of Odd Volumes, at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, at the Fifty-eighth Meeting of the Sette, on December 7th, 1883. (pp. 15.) Edition limited to 250 copies. inaugural ^tlreslsi of His Oddship Edward F. Wvman, Fifth President of the Sette of Odd Volumes, delivered at the Free- masons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, on his taking office, on April 4th, 1884, &c. (pp. 56.) Presented to the Sette by His Oddship Edward F. Wvman. Edition limited to 133 copies. {Musical Eontfou a Ctnturn ^go. Compiled from the Raw Material, by Brother Burnham W. Horner, F.R.S.L., F.R.Hist.S., Organist of the Sette of Odd Volumes, delivered at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, on June 6th, 1884. (pp. 32.) Presented to the Sette by His Oddship Edward F. Wvman. Edition limited to 133 copies. Bibliography of Odd Volumes. Or, Fifty Years of English Art. By Bro. George C. Hait6, Author of " Plant Studies," &c. Delivered at the Freemasons' Tavern, Friday, July nth, 1884. (pp. 40.) Presented to the Sette by His Oddship Edward F. Wyman. Edition limited to 133 copies. 7. Cj)e ^rc^^j^afe^pearian Srama. By Bro. Frank Ireson. Delivered at the Freemasons' Tavern, Friday, January 2, 1885. (pp. 34.) Presented to the Sette by His Oddship Edward F. Wyman. Edition limited to 133 copies. 8. 5naug;ural %^^xtii of His Oddship, Brother James Roberts Brown, Sixth President of the Sette of Odd Volumes, delivered at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, on his taking office, on April 17th, 1885, &c. (pp. 56.) Presented to the Sette by His Oddship James Roberts Brown. Edition limited to 133 copies. 9. Catalogue of OTorfei^ of ^rt Exhibited at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, on Friday, July nth, 1884. Lent by Members of the Sette of Odd Volumes. Presented to the Sette by His Oddship Edward F. Wyman. Edition limited to 255 copies. 10. Catalogue of Planuslcrtpt^ antr iEarlp^ 33rinteK JSoofeiS Exhibited and Described by Bro. B. Quaritch, the Librarian of the Sette of Odd Volumes, at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great (^ueen Street, June 5th, 1885. Presented to the Sette by His Oddship James Roberts Brown. Edition limited to 255 copies^ Bibliography of Odd Volumes, 11. Catalogue of <^tr #rgan ilHujIic Exhibited by Bro. Burn^am W. Horner, F.R.S.L., f .R.Hist.S., Organist of the Sette of Odd Volumes, at the Freemasons' Tavern, <5reat Queen Street, on Friday, February 5th, 1886. Presented to the Sette by His Oddship James Roberts Brown. Edition limited to 133 copies. 12. IfnauguraT ^tJwsliEJ of His Oddship Bro. George Clulow, Seventh President of the Sette of Odd Volumes, delivered at the Freemasons' "Tavern, Great Queen Street, on his taking office, on April and, 1886. &c. (pp. 64.) Presented to the Sette by His Oddship George Clulow. Edition limited to 133 copies. 13. % dTeio ISotes about ^rab^. By Bro. Charles Holme, Pilgrim of the Sette of Odd Volumes. Read at a Meeting of the " Sette " at Willis's Rooms, on Friday, 7th May, 1886. (pp. 46.) Presented to the Sette of Odd Volumes by Bro. Chas Holme. Edition limited to 133 copies. 14. Sfccount of tj^c ^reat HeanutJ ^ocietwfl antJ ^i{£(octation£{, antr of ^% Ci^tef ^rtnt* ing Clubjl of ^rtat J3iitain ant> jfrelanti. Delivered by Bro. Bernard Quaritch, Librarian of the Sette of Odd Volumes, at Willis's Rooms, on Tuesday, June 8, 1886 (pp. 66). Presented to the Sette of Odd Volumes by His Oddship George Clulow. Edition limited to 255 copies. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦^ ♦ ♦ ♦ ' "There is Divinity in Odd Nnmb&rs." —S/uikes:Peare. ^e ^Hk of Edward Heron-Allen, Necromancer {Secretary, 1885), St. John's, Putney Hill, S.W. Wilfred Ball, Peintre-Graveuxy 39B, Old Bond Street, W. James Roberts Brown, Akhymist {Secretary, 1880; Vice-President, 1883; President, 1885), 14, HiUdrop Road, Tufnell Park, N. George Clulow, Xylographer {Secretary, i83i ; Vice-President, 1884). President, 51, Belsize Avenue, Hampstead, N.W. Alfred J. Davies, Attor^tey- General {Vice-President, 1881,; Secretary, 1684), 31, Churchfield Road, Mattock Lane, Ealing, W. Charles Leopold Eberhardt, Astrologer, Thuringia House, Fitzjohn Avenue, Hampstead, N.W. George Charles Hait6, Art Critic, Ormsby Lodge, Blaudford Road, Bedford Park, W. List of Members. BURNHAM W. Horner, Organist, 34, Sheen Park, Richmond, S.W. Frank Ireson, Artificer, 81, Caversham Road, N.W. Daniel W. Kettle, F.R.G.S., Cosmographer, Secretary, Hayes Common, near Beckenham, Kent. Henry George Liley, Art Director^ Radnor House, Radnor Place, Gloucester Square, Hyde Park, W. William Murrell, M.D., Leech {Secretary, 1883 ; Vice-President, 1885), 38, Weymouth Street, Portland Place.'-'W. Bernard Quaritch, Librarian {President, 1878, 1879, «&• 188a), 15, Piccadilly, W. Edward Renton, Herald {Vice-President, il 44, South Hill Park, Hampstead {Vice-President, 1880 ; Secretary, i88a), H. J. Gordon Ross, Master of CeremonieSy Hillrise, Putney Hill, S.W. W. M. Thompson, Historiographer {Vice-President, 1882; President, 1883), 16, Carlyle Square, Chelsea, S.W. G. R. Tyler, Stationer, Vice-President, 17, Queenhithe, E.C. T. C. Venables, Antiquary, 17, Queenhithe, E.C. Charles Welsh, Chapman^ s, Ludgate Hill, E.C. List of Members. Charles W. H. Wyman, Typographer {Vice-Preside7tt, 1878 &* 1879 ; President, 1880), 103, King Henry's Road, Primrose Hill, N.W. Edward F. Wyman, Treasurer {Secretary, 1878 &> 1879; President, 1884), 19, Blomfield Road, Maida Vale, W. .Supplcntmtal ©tij iToIumes. Edward Walford, M.A., Rhymer, 2, Hyde Park Mansions, N.W. ChXrles Holme, Pilgrivi, Hillside, Hampstead Hill Gardens, N.W. => THE SETTE OF ODD VOLUMES MISCELLANY No. 15. B 000 003 671 5 5f I".