[ Sir Thomas Phillipps, collector of manuscripts. ] Illustrated menu for the Phillipps Centenary Dinner at Stationers' Hall, with separate table plan.

[Two items] 6pp., 12mo. A nicely-printed keepsake, stitched into green card covers, with 'SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS | 1792-1872' in gilt on front. In very good condition. Oval window in cover revealing a profile portrait of Phillipps, which is printed in colour and tipped-in onto the first recto, which is bordered in brown. Text in brown, with title-page reading: 'Stationers' Hall | Phillipps Centenary Dinner | 4th July 1972 | Chairman | The Rt. Hon. Viscount Eccles | P.C. K.C.V.O.' A page of 'Toasts' (the first to the queen and the second to 'The Immortal Memory of Sir Thomas Phillipps', proposed by Munby and seconded by Libert of the Beinecke) followed by a page carrying the menu. Page on inside back cover carries an extract of a 1849 report on a visit to Middlehill by Abbé Jean-Baptiste Pitra. The table plan is printed in blue on both sides of a 19.5 x 37 cm piece of paper, folded to make a 19.5 x 9.5 cm packet. In good condition, with minor coffee staining. On one side is the plan itself (at foot: 'The Stationers Garden, wherein heretical books were burnt by order'), and on the other the 'Index Guide to the Table Plan', in four columns, and including John Carter, John Sparrow, James M. Osborn and William Rees-Mogg. No copy traced on either OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC. Note: Letters from many of the guests may also be found in my inventory.