At the Instance of Benjamin Franklin": A Brief History of the Library Company of Philadelphia

Philadelphia: Library Company of Philadelphia, 1995. Second. Paperback. Good +. Illustrated wraps. 112 pp. Numerous color and BW illustrations including one fold out. A pleasant read. The history of places like this is interesting, and you run across many familiar names along the way! "This work is a revised and much expanded version of At the instance of Benjamin Franklin, by Edwin Wolf 2nd published ... in 1976 ... the new edition also contains passages from The Wolf years ... by Marie E. Korey published in 1984. The sections on the more recent history (truncated) ... were written by John C. Van Horne and James Green ..."--Page [112]. (Inventory #: 126897)