The Intellectual Heritage of the Constitutional Era: The Delegates' Library
Philadelphia: Library Company of Philadelphia, 1986. Paperback. 64 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Blue card cover with silver cover title and black illustration running from back cover to front cover; stapled. The delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 enjoyed the use of the collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia. "To commemorate the Bicentennial of the Constitution, the Library Company has chosen to present an exhibition of the books that are known to have been influential in framing the minds of the Framers. And to interpret those books for a wide audience, to make some sense of this vast universe of writing, the Library Company commissioned Jack P. Greene, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at The John Hopkins University, to write the present booklet." -- p. 6. In Very Good- Condition: cover is faded along spine and along upper edge of front; clean and tight. Very Good -. Item #008581
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