3-086-403 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

In Clubland - No. V: the Travellers' Club, 1898. 'The Library; A glimpse from a window in the Library; The Favourite Chair. No. 106, Pall Mall@is the home of one of the most popular and distinguished societies of Clubland...the year of its birth was 1819... The plans of Mr. (afterwards Sir) Charles Barry were selected [for the new building]...On the first floor the principal apartments are the Morning-room, which looks to Pall Mall. Behind this is the House Dining-room, and at the back, fronting Carlton Terrace, is the Coffee-room, which occupies the whole length of the house...while the entire area above the Coffee-room is devoted to the Library. The dimensions of the Library are 65 ft. by 22½ ft., but the effect of length without breadth (to quote Euclid), inevitable to such proportions, is dexterously evaded by the introduction of four projecting bookcases, each with two pure Corinthian columns, on outpost duty, as it were. The exquisitely light and elegant effect of this arrangement has been admirably caught by our Artist in his Illustration.' The Travellers' Club website, March 2026: 'Dress Code and Etiquette - The Travellers is a gentlemen's club. Ladies are welcome as guests.' From "Illustrated London News", 1898.