Twenty-Five Years of Progress: Being a slight historical sketch of the Civil Engineers' Club of Cleveland, 1880-1905

Cleveland, Ohio: Privately Printed, 1905. 16mo. (15.5 x 10.5 cm.), 24 pages. Illustrated. All edges gilt. FIRST & ONLY EDITION, limited, number 363 of 400 copies hand-numbered copies. A commemorative book for the Silver Anniversary Banquet of the Civil Engineers' Club of Cleveland, held at The Colonial on March 13, 1905. The fare included Canape a la Russe, Blue Points, Clear Green Turtle, Broiled Shad, Broiled Spring Chicken, Bermuda Potatoes, and several desserts. Portraits of eminent club members and a history of the organization. Notable for the original dust jacket printed on thin silver paper, containing a printed menu for the banquet. We imagine the banquet book was prepared long before the event's menu was available, and so it was added as a dust jacket; a most unusual adaptation. Some light soiling to the boards, otherwise fine. Printed silver dust jacket with edges chipped. Near very good. [OCLC locates seven copies, though we cannot establish whether any of these have their dust jackets].