@kkfengdao,
kkfengdao wrote:
Do you have any more imformation about it? And what's the meaning of "sette"? I could not find it in my dictionaries.
I found the information by using Google. The name of the society is a kind of joke:
1. The society is composed of people who buy, sell or collect second-hand or old books. Dealers specialising in old books are often described as antiquarian booksellers.
2. A "set of odd volumes" is something that often appears in lists of items offered at book auctions or sales or by book dealers. A number of unrelated books not linked in any way. Possibly interesting, usually not. "Odd" applied to people can mean "eccentric" so that is a play on words.
3. The word 'set' when used as a noun can mean a collection of things or a club or society. The use of it here is a play on words.
4. The spelling of the name of the society is a parody of the archaic spelling often found in very old books (e.g. those sold by antiquarian booksellers) in the English language. This is an example of an "in-joke", that is, a joke readily understandable by the members of a group, less so by outsiders.
5. Thus the members of the society, in a thoroughly bookish way, liken themselves jocularly to a collection of dusty old books.
6. There are similarly named clubs all over the English speaking world.