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Privately Printed Opuscula
ISSUED TO MEMBERS OF
THE SETTE OF ODD VOLUMES.
No. LIV.
AN OLD CITY COMPANY.
An Old City Company:
A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY AND CONDITIONS OF
The Skinners’ Company of London,
The substance whereof was compiled
by command of His Oddship
Brother Max Pemberton, Hack,
and read before
Ye Sette of Odd Volumes on
November 25th, 1902.
BY
LEWIS BOYD SEBASTIAN,
Skynner to ye Sette.
LONDON:
Imprynted at ye Bedford Press, 20 & 21, Bedfordbury, W.C.
MDCCCCVI.
IMPRIMATUR
Let this be imprinted.
By Order of the Publication Committee,
Conrad W. Cooke (Mechanick),
Secretary, Publication Committee.
This Edition is limited to 299 Copies, and is imprynted for private circulation only.
No....
Presented unto
BY
Dulce est Desipere in Loco.
Horace. Odes, iv, 12.
DULCE—Delightful, says the Poet,
EST—is it, and right well we know it,
DESIPERE—to play the fool
IN LOCO—when we’re out of school.
W. M. T.
