Excerpt from Bibliographical Notes on a Collection of Editions of the Book Known as "Puckle's Club" From the Library of a Member of the Rowfant Club, as Shown at the Club House, March, 1896

N the fascinating but still-to-be-written Romance of Bibliography, there could be no more curious chapter than the story of Puckle's Club. That a book, meritorious, indeed, in its intention, but with out sufficient distinction to secure a permanent place in the annals of English Literature, should be pub lished in the same year as the Spectator, and should run through seven editions before the middle of the century, is perhaps not in itself unexampled. But that, after its decease in the last century, it should have been revived again early in this as an illus trated volume which forms an important link in the history of the revival of wood-engraving, is certainly a notable thing. It is, however, more notable still that a something both in the work and the author should continue to attract the attention of the book lover. For several years Mr. G. Steinman Stein man, of Croydon, devoted much patient investigation to Puckle's biography, the results of which he em bodied in 1872 in a privately printed and very rare tract of twenty pages entitled The Author of 'the.

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