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Library Company of Philadelphia. Used - Very Good. 1974. Cloth, quarto, lvii and 578 pp. 16 illustrations. Some scuffing to boards. Binding loose, but solid. Bright, clean pages. Very Good. (Subject: Books on Books.)

Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1974. First. A near fine copy in dark blue cloth with gilt titles on spine Inscribed by the author on the ffep Some foxing on endpapers, but otherwise no marks or damage at all Courtesy of Wikipedia: James Logan (1674 â€" 1751) was a Scots-Irish colonial American statesman, administrator, and scholar who served as the fourteenth mayor of Philadelphia and held a number of other public offices While Logan would eventually become mayor of Philadelphia, chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, lieutenant governor, and acting governor he is perhaps best known for being a bibliophile, confessing once that "Books are my disease"  He collected a personal library of over 3,000 volumes Some commentators consider Logan's library to have been the largest and best collection of classical writings in America at that time Logan would in time become known to Benjamin Franklin and his "Junto"; an influential group of friends that would meet weekly… Read More