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Georgetown University Library: Miniatures Commemorating the Tercentenary of its Founding [1640-1940]

Collection

Identifier: GTA-000373

Scope and Contents

Limited edition of two hundred numbered copies; present are copies numbered 2, 4, 29, and 53. Cover bears embossed seals of University and Riggs Family. Includes foreword by Charles J. Foley, S.J., and sections on: Manuscripts in the Riggs Memorial Library; Incunabula in the Riggs Memorial Library; The Riggs Memorial Library and Early Americana; and The Library and Its Work Today.

Number 4 contains typed note attributed to Archivist William Repetti, commenting on the accuracy of the text. This ends with the following phrase: "A real Nevelisonian publication", apparently a reference to Georgetown University President W. Coleman Nevils, S.J.