'The Encyclopaedia Britannica Dinner given by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace': 'Plan of Tables' and menu., attended by A.J. Balfour and all the great and the good. (up to 300 of them).

Both items nicely printed and in good condition, with light signs of age and wear. ONE: 'The Encyclopaedia Britannica Dinner given by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace. Hotel Cecil, Friday Evening, November 21st, 1902. Plan of Tables.' 28.5 x 80 cm, folding up into a 28.5 x 13.5 cm packet. Printed in black and red on the whole of one side, with the other side carrying a 'Programme of Music' ('M. G. Fericescu, Musical Director'), an alphabetical table, and a cover with engraved illustration. Made out in pencil to 'Mr. A. Williams | K24' (i.e. the Liberal MP Aneurin Williams). TWO: 'MENU | 1768 The Encyclopaedia Britannica Dinner 1902 | Given by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace | Friday, November 21st, 1902.' Card bifolium. 17.5 x 12.5 cm. Cover printed in black and red, with engraved portrait of William Smellie. Back cover with engraving of 'Three Contributors' (Sir Walter Scott, Thomas De Quincey and Thomas Babington Macaulay). In addition to the menu and a 'List of Toasts', the centre pages carry three definitions ('rhetoric', 'wine' and 'banquet') from the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. No other copy of either item traced either on OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC, although OCLC WorldCat records two copies of a sixteen-page booklet for the dinner.