[ Ye Sette of Odd Volumes, London. ] Four programmes/menus of meetings, nicely printed and illustrated (three by Rupert Thomas Gould).

One: 'Ye 390th Meeting of Ye Sette of Odde [sic] Volumes, holden at Ye Imperial Restaurant (Oddenino's) on Tuesday, ye 30th daie of October, 1923.' 4pp., 4to. Bifolium on shiny art paper. In fair condition, with light signs of age and wear. Stylish caricature portrait of chairman Sir William Arbuthnot Lane ('Chirurgeon') on front cover, with two amusing small vignettes. TWO: 'Ye 415th Meeting of Ye Sette of Odd Volumes, holden at Ye Royal Adelaide Gallery (Gatti's) on Tuesday, ye 22nd daie of June, 1926.' 4pp., 8vo. Bifolium on shiny art paper. In fair condition, aged and worn, with light spotting at head of first leaf. Beardsleyesque illustration on front cover. 'Bro. Owen Lankester, F.R.C.S. | (Leech) | in ye chaire.' Contains 42-line poem by 'B. B.', titled 'Place aux Dames!' Three: 'Ye 432nd Meeting of Ye Sette of Odd Volumes, Holden at ye Savoy Hotel, London, on ye 24th day of April, 1928' | Jubilee Meeting and Ladies' Night'. 8pp., 8vo. Stitched Curwen Press pamphlet on thick wove paper. Engraving by Gould of 'Ye Ladyes' Knight' (Heron-Allen?) on piece of paper tipped in. Aged and discoloured by transferred rust staining, with the engraving having some loss at head. 'His Oddshippe Bro. Edward Heron-Allen, F.R.S. Necromancer, in ye Chair'. Page of introduction ('The present Secretary, having received a sketchy, but highly mathematical education, has been enabled to compute that exactly fifty years have therefore passed since that memorable occasion, and that the Sette is therefore in a state of Jubilee.') and three-page text. Four: 'Ye 479th meeting of ye Sette of Odd Volumes, holden at ye Savoy Hotel, London, on ye 27th day of June, 1933 | Ladies Night'. 4pp., 8vo. Stitched Pelican Press pamphlet on laid paper. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. 'Bro. G. D. Roberts, O.B.E. Gladiator, in ye Chair'. Lovely anonymous illustration of a flapper sitting on a pile of books while waving a cigarette on p.7. Page of introduction and three pages of text regarding 'Ladies Night'. Vignette of eighteenth-century dance on final page.