Origins -- The founder -- The beginning -- First members : the elders -- First members : the new entry -- The first publications -- Early English texts -- A new president & a new editor -- Signs of change -- The development of the facsimile -- The club at the turn of the century -- New members and a new century -- Montague Rhodes James -- Signs of change -- Austerity and aftermath -- New books for old -- New winds from America -- The business of publishing -- Into another century