Georgetown University Library: Miniatures Commemorating the Tercentenary of its Founding [1640-1940]

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Creator

Georgetown University Library Booth Family Center for Special Collections

Georgetown University Archives

Repository

DigitalGeorgetown

Georgetown University Archives, Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Washington, D.C.

Description

Limited edition of two hundred numbered copies; present are copies numbered 2, 4, 29, and 53. Cover bears embossed seals of University and Riggs Family. Includes foreword by Charles J. Foley, S.J., and sections on: Manuscripts in the Riggs Memorial Library; Incunabula in the Riggs Memorial Library; The Riggs Memorial Library and Early Americana; and The Library and Its Work Today. Number 4 contains typed note attributed to Archivist William Repetti, commenting on the accuracy of the text. This ends with the following phrase: "A real Nevelisonian publication", apparently a reference to Georgetown University President W. Coleman Nevils, S.J.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1042392

Date

1940

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