Bookplate from Rainbow & Hannah's Circulating Library.
- imprint_number: 1796.042
- title: No. [blank] of Rainbow & Hannah's Circulating Library Norfolk, Virginia, 1796.
- sequence_number: 42
- year: 1796
- place_issued: Norfolk
- issuing_press: Uncertain
- author: Rainbow & Hannah's Circulating Library
- notes: The firm of Rainbow & Hannah conducted a Norfolk bookstore that loaned parts of its stock to paying subscribers from late 1795 to mid-1798. The only recorded copy of this bookplate is held by the Library Company of Philadelphia (acquired from the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints) is affixed to a copy of The Lounger, (4th ed., London 1788); that plate does not carry an indication of the press producing the item for Rainbow & Hannah.
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