"Edited, designed, and typeset in Sabon by David Chambers"--T.p. verso.

"Here, in the guise of the story of our Association, is an account of friendships between its members over the past fifty years. They have all been collectors with widely diffferent interests, from countries across the world, united by a love of books and the need to be surrounded by them at the end of a day's work, and in the years of retirement ... The first three chapters which follow are reprinted from 'The Private Library, Autumn and Winter 1980 and Spring 1981, with some necessary amendments to allow for the passage of time."-- P. 9.