America's first public library : the provincial library at Charles-Town in Carolina, 1698 /

America's first public library : the provincial library at Charles-Town in Carolina, 1698 /

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Corporate author / creator:South Carolina State Library
Imprint:Columbia, S.C. : The Library, 1970.
Description:[8], 4-11 p. : facsims. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Bray, Thomas, -- 1656-1730.
Charleston, South Carolina. -- Library.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2250771
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Other uniform titles:Pennington, Edgar Legare, 1891-1951. Beginnings of the library in Charles Town, South Carolina.
Notes:Cover title.
Consists of two documents: a facsimile of the act passed by the General Assembly of South Carolina confirming establishment of a library at Charles Towne, reprinted from Nicholas Trott's The laws of the Province of South Carolina (1736); and Edgar Lee Pennington's The beginnings of the library in Charles Town, South Carolina, reprinted from Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society (1935).
Includes bibliographical references.

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