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vii Illustrations P.1. “The Guys Who Look Remarkably Alike Club,” by Hilgerdt, 2007 4 I.1. “The Man in the Club Window,” frontispiece for Hogg’s Habits of Good Society, 1859 13 I.2. Frequency of use of club and gentlemen’s club, 1800–2000 29 1.1. Travellers’ Pie recipe 35 1.2. Cotelettes de Mouton à la Reform recipe 35 1.3. Garrick Club Beefsteak dinner menu, 1890 36 1.4. Garrick Club dinner menu featuring turtle soup, 1899 37 1.5. Garrick Club dinner bill of James Christie, 1892 38 1.6. Garrick Club dinner bill of James Christie, 1891 39 1.7. Garrick Club dinner bill of Mr. Kemble, 1893 39 1.8. Illustrated Garrick Club house dinner menu, 1913 40 1.9. Garrick Club menu card (autographed), 1880 41 1.10. “The Smoking Room at the Club,” by Doyle, 1862 43 1.11. Garrick Club Candidates Book, 1854 46 1.12. Blackballing/voting machine 47 1.13. Pall Mall and St. James’s Street, from Fry’s London in 1885 48 1.14. Athenaeum library and drawing room 61 1.15. “Garrick Club and Adjoining Buildings” 66 1.16. “Dinner given by the Oriental Club,” 1858 74 1.17. South elevation of the Travellers Club, 1839 and 1841 76 1.18. “The Reform Club, Pall Mall, London,” by Moore, 1837 77 illustrations viii & 1.19. Blueprint for top floor of Garrick Club 78 1.20. Blueprint for second floor of Garrick Club 78 1.21. Blueprint for first floor of Garrick Club 79 1.22. Blueprint for servant areas of Garrick Club 79 1.23. Blueprint for dining areas of Garrick Club 80 1.24. Coffee room of the Garrick Club 80 1.25. Pall Mall façade of the Travellers Club, by Forsyth, 1897, decorated for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee procession 82 2.1. Dickens reading The Chimes to friends, drawing by Maclise, 1844 90 2.2. “The Great Window of Bays’s,” from Thackeray’s Pendennis, 1850 104 3.1. “Horner Snoring,” from Thackeray’s “Mr. Brown’s Letters to a Young Man about Town,” 1849 121 3.2. “Punch Dinner Invitation Card,” drawing by Du Maurier, 1871 131 3.3. Echoes from the Clubs masthead and title page, 1867 135 3.4. Club tableau, from Sala’s Twice Round the Clock, 1859 137 3.5. “Rossetti . . . leaving the Arundel Club with George Augustus Sala,” by Beerbohm, 1922 138 3.6. “Punch’s Fancy Portrait No. 46: George Augustus Sala,” 1881 139 5.1. “Club Types,” by Beerbohm, 1892 184 5.2. “Oscar Wilde and John Toole—Garrick Club—’93,” by Beerbohm, 1898 187 E.1. “Female Clubs v. Matrimony,” by du Maurier, 1878 220 E.2. “Miss Bicknell’s Plan for the Garrick Club Smoking Room,” by Gilbert, 1870 221 E.3. “Husbands in Waiting,” by May, 1897 225 E.4. 1844 drawing from Cruikshank’s The Progress of Mr. Lambkin 237 ...

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