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 Osborne Collection Of Early Children's Books
Associated with the Friends of the Osborne and Lillian H. Smith Collections in liaison with the Library Association of London. The Children's Books History Society promotes appreciation of children's books in their literary, historical and bibliographical aspects, and encourages a distribution and exchange of information on children's literature. We invite new members to join the Society whether their interest is amateur or professional. Meetings and talks are held in London, England about six times a year, with occasional provincial meetings.The Society arranges visits to collections and helps to organise conferences on the history of children's books. An annual Occasional Paper is also issued. Previous papers have covered Early Alphabets, Peter Pan, Chapbooks and Children's illustration of the 1860s.
For the benfit of our American members Lady Anne Adye has kindly agreed to take their dollar cheques and to give the Society the sterling equivalent. The cheques should be made payable to Lady Anne Adye for US$17 (surface mail) , US$23 (air mail.) Please fill in and send the form which follows and send together with the membership fee to the address which appears at the bottom of the form.
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Membership is 10 pounds sterling per annum and entitles members to attend all meetings and to receive the Newsletters, and current Occasional Paper. Members who live Overseas paying in sterling should add 4 pounds for airmail postage. 
