The Circumnavigators’ Club. (Including an early Certificate of Membership)

A$400 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

New York, NY : The Circumnavigators Club, 104 Pearl Street, 1912. Duodecimo (155 x 118 mm), original limp pigskin (moderate wear to edges, corners and spine), front lettered in blind Circumnavigators Club ; marbled pastedowns and endpapers; pp. xxi, [2 blank], [1 List of officers], printed on parchment, text in black with vignette decorations and initials in black and green; the list of officers on the last page includes Wm. H. Taft (Honorary President), Robert Frothingham (President), George F. Trowbridge (Vice-President), William E. Peck (Treasurer), and V. Atherton Dodge (Secretary); very good throughout; loosely enclosed is the portable certificate (117 x 150 mm) that would have been issued with the book, belonging to member no. 291 (whose sober signature is difficult to decipher), which is printed on the same parchment stock and signed by Frothingham, Dodge and Peck. A very early piece of memorabilia associated with the Circumnavigators Club, which was founded in New York City in 1902. The colophon to the booklet states Copyright 1912 ; both the booklet and certificate of membership were issued to just the 291st member of the club, leading us to speculate that the certificate dates from 1912 or 1913 almost certainly from within the term of William Howard Taft as President of the United States (March 4, 1909 – March 4, 1913). The witty text in the booklet has been attributed to journalist and fiction writer Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) by Turner and Bishop in their c

• Binding: Hardcover

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