Invitation + Keepsake for Double Crown Club Dinner 225 on 5 July 1974 on board the Motor Vessel Mayflower Garden.

Editorial: Double Crown Club 1974.

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Together 2 Items. The Menu a pamphlet c. 21.5 x 13 cms in blue wrappers illustrated with an engraving, containing 16 pages sewn-in, of which 6pp are each printed with text plus an engraved illustration. Couple of wrapper corners just slightly creased, else excellent. The Invitation a simple card c. 22 x 10.5 cms with engraved illustration and details of the meeting including a visit to the collection and library of the Armouries of the Tower of London. About 100 copies only designed and printed by David Chambers. A delicious spoof pamphlet based on the 1829 publication The Epicurean Practices Of Some Of The Numerous Animals & Birds In The Tower Menagerie illustrated by William Harvey's animal portraits engraved on wood by Branston & Wright. This DCC version includes the original descriptions and Harvey illustrations of the Cape Lion or Felis Leo, the Caracal or Felis Caracal, and the Secretary Bird or Mackay Milleris : and adds a new species The Double Crown Club, or Praetor in Sella Curuli, a pair of peacock-like birds with crown-like ruffs. 'Like the Boa Constrictor, this group of typographic cognoscenti is inclined to eat well but infrequently. Its feeding grounds are commonly in Soho, but a move to fresh pastures is the inevitable result of the summer's drought . 5 July 1974 sees such a migration, when . the Club is to dine, aboard the motor vessel Mayflowr Garden, upon smoked trout, entrecote bordelaise' &c. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.…

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Invitation + Keepsake for Double Crown Club Dinner 225 on 5 July 1974 on board the Motor Vessel Mayflower Garden.
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DOUBLE CROWN CLUB : David Chambers : William Harvey.
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Double Crown Club 1974.
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Adam Mills Rare Books

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ADAM MILLS RARE BOOKS : selling books internationally from Cambridge since 1980 §§ Adam Mills Rare Books began in 1980 and for 35 years has consistently offered high quality books covering English Literature [mainly 19th Century] : Private Press and Illustrated Books : and Typography and Books About Books. §§ After St Andrew's University, and post-graduate at the Warburg Institute under E. H. Gombrich, Adam Mills worked for five years with the historic 18thC Cambridge booksellers Deighton, Bell & Co. §§ Adam Mills Rare Books is situated just outside the magnificent University city of Cambridge, with its stunning array of ancient and modern architecture, and its superb copyright Library.…

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