1946 ZDw

[1]⁶.

[1-2] 3-10 [11-12].

8½" × 5½", trimmed, white laid, F J Head handmade; 12(+2)pt. Bembo, dropped initial; sewn in heavy flecked pea-green wove paper wrappers, front cover printed: ‘[within decorative border of flowers, 34pt.] SAINTSBURY | CENTENARY | 23 OCTOBER, 1845 — 1945 | THE SAINTSBURY CLUB’.

Not in Curwen Library or 1963 handlist; found in Guildhall Library through Copac.

The menu is given on p.11, and the members and guests present are listed on p.12.

• Bembo
  • 1495, by Francesco Griffo of Bologna, for Aldus Manutius's De Aetna of Cardinal Bembo;
  • 1929, Monotype
  • See Simon 1956 pp.41-2,Moran 1971 pp.139-41 154.
• Bembo, 12pt.
• Saintsbury Club (London, England)
  • Named in honour of G. E. M. Saintsbury, Professor of rhetoric and English literature at Edinburgh 1895-, famous critic and wine connoisseur. Muir was one of his pupils.