Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: (post TT is a recognised truism that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and our Odd Volume Club has not escaped the penalty of its success. One very flourishing example of imitation is what is known as the
Chelmsford Sette of Odde Volumes, which has been in existence some years, and has between fifty and sixty members, each of whom is numbered as a separate Volume. This society meets to read and discuss papers which are afterwards printed and sold, and some may be had of Volume I., who is Mr. Edmund Durrant, of High Street, Chelmsford. There is also a ladies’ branch of the Chelmsford Odde Volumes. I have also heard that a similar society was founded some years ago in far-off Hong Kong, but I have no reliable information about this, and I have not sufficientleisure, at present, to go to Hong Kong to make the necessary enquiries on the spot. With regard, however, to the
Boston Club of Odd Volumes, I can speak with more certainty, having been in close correspondence with some of its members for several years, and possessing, as I do, examples of the beautiful works that have been issued under its auspices. From a copy of
The Constitution and By Lawes of the Club of Odd Volumes, dated Boston, 1888,1 learn that the society was founded in January, 1887, and that in November, 1887, it engaged a suite of rooms at 125 Tremont Street, where the first meeting was held on December 20, 1887. The admission fee was then fixed at twenty-five dollars, and the annual assessment at twenty-five dollars, so that membership in this Club is considerably more costly than in the London sette. The great feature of the Boston O.V. Club has been its yearly exhibitions of literary and artistic collections, such as chapter{Section 4autographs, engraved portraits, bookp…
