The Bath Society of Artists, founded in 1904 with 26 members, provides a highly popular annual open exhibition at Bath's centrally-places Victoria Art Gallery. Now with over 100 members, the Society also hosts lecture and discussion programmes contributing to the cultural life of the city.
 
This book chronicles the changing face of the exhibitions down the decades where a mertocratic mix of talented amateur, locally and nationally recognised artist enshures a broad and stylistically varied display of work. Society President's have included: Philip Wilson Steer, Lord Methuen, Gilbert Spencer, Adrian Heath, Ralph Brown and David Inshaw