"Books Are My Disease" : A Two-Part Series Exploring the Loganian Library

22nov12:30 pm1:30 pm"Books Are My Disease" : A Two-Part Series Exploring the Loganian LibraryFree

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“Books Are My Disease” : A Two-Part Series Exploring the Loganian Library

Part II The Loganian Library at the Library Company of Philadelphia

Free & Virtual

Tuesday,  November 22 at 12:30pm ET 

Building upon the November 15 event discussing 18th-century book storage at Stenton, Emily Guthrie and Jim Green will share highlights and stories from Logan’s collection in its present home at the Library Company. Commonly referred to as the “Loganian Library,” the collection comprised over 2,600 volumes at the time of Logan’s death in 1751. Consisting chiefly of books in Latin and Greek, the collection was among the finest in Colonial America.

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(Tuesday) 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm(GMT-05:00)