hardcover
2007 · [Alexandria, Virginia]
by Seale, William
[Alexandria, Virginia]: Alexandria Library Company, 2007. hardcover. 4to. hardcover. xiv, 160 pages. The Alexandria Library Company describes a rare American library in Virginia and the booklovers associated with it through two centuries. Historian William Seale presents the story--through good times and bad--of this historic library company, which has been in business since 1794. Sponsored by the Company, the book is documented from the shelves and boxes of early manuscripts that chronicle the history of the organization. Old leather volumes preserve the minutes from the founding to the present, while volumes of library records reveal what books were (truncated)