UNITED STATES 1 1/ 



Club of Odd Volumes. 



Address. 61 Court Street, Boston, Mass. Secretary: Wm. Green Shilla- 

 ber, 275 Beacon Street. 



History. Organized Jan. 29, 1887; incorporated Apr. 28, 1890. 



Ref.: American book clubs, by A. Growoll. New York, 1897. p. 300-309. 



Object. To promote literary and artistic tastes, to establish and maintain a place 

 for social meetings and a reference library, to provide occasional exhibits of a 

 special and instructive character, and to publish rare prints and books relating to 

 historical and literary matters. 



Meetings. Monthly, 4th Wednesday, Oct. to May, inclusive. 



Membership. Limited to 51; 36 resident (entrance fee, $25; annual dues, $25); 



15 non-resident, i. e. over 25 miles from Boston, ( l / 2 these amounts) ; i honorary 



(limited to 5). 



Publications. 



A catalogue of books, addresses at meetings, plates, club books and cata- 

 logues, and miscellaneous publications issued by the Club is contained 

 in a volume entitled "The Club of Odd Volumes of Boston. Constitu- 

 tion and by-laws with a list of the officers and members. April, 1904." 

 It includes the following : 



The women of the Court of Louis XV. Tr. from the French of Imbert 

 de Saint- Amand. Boston, 1892. 4. 



The last years of Louis XV. Tr. from the French of Imbert de Saint- 

 Amand. Boston, 1893. 4 



Early American poetry. 5 vols., each with an introduction by J. F. 

 Hunnewell : 



I. New-England's crisis, by Benjamin Tompson. Boston, 1894. 



II. New-England or A briefe enarration of the ayre, earth, water, 

 fish and fowles of that country, with a description of the natures, 

 orders, habits and religions of the natiues ; in Latine and English 

 verse [by the Rev. William Morill, 1625]. Boston, 1895. 



III. A poem and An elegy by Cotton Mather [1682 and 1685]. 

 Boston, 1896. 



IV. Elegies and epitaphs 1677-1717. Boston, 1896. 



V. The poems of Roger Wolcott, Esq., 1725. Boston, 1898. 

 Early Boston booksellers 1642-1711. By G. E. Littlefield. Boston, 1900. 

 New Englands memoriall. By Nathaniel Morton. With an introduc- 

 tion by A. Lord. Boston, 1903. 



Early schools and school books of New England. By G. E. Littlefield. 

 Boston, Massachusetts, 1904. 



Historic of the life and death of Sir William Kirkaldy, of Grange . . . 

 by H. Murdock. Boston, 1906. 4. 



