Menus from twelve quarterly dinners:. un-numbered (1964), 83, 95, 130, 137, 151, 156, 180, 185, 200, 209, 268.
London, 1946, 1948, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1983. Each menu is produced by a different designer and press, in a great variety of sizes and styles; most are 4 pages. They include information about the evening's after-dinner speaker. Very good condition. Item #6037
Double Crown is a dining club and society of printers, publishers, book designers, and illustrators. The Club's members "have been responsible for most of the events of typographical importance in this country since 1924."
The 209th menu (1971) is one of 8 with a signed etching by Anthony Gross. From the collection of Harold Hugo.
WITH: Rules, Rolls, and Records of the Double Crown Club. Privately Printed at Stinehour, 1980. This has a bibliography of the menus. AND James Moran, The Double Crown Club, one of 500 signed copies.
Price: $500.00