Catalogue of Books belonging to Alexandria Library Company.
- imprint_number: 1815.038
- title: A catalogue of the books, belonging to the Alexandria Library Company. To which are prefixed, the Act of incorporation; the Laws of the Company, and the names of the members.
- sequence_number: 38
- year: 1815
- place_issued: Alexandria
- issuing_press: John A. Stewart
- author: Alexandria Library Company.
- notes: This library was formed as a social institution in 1794, and incorporated by act of Assembly in January 1799 (Chap. XLIV of Acts of December 1798 Assembly); contents here include text of the act [p. 3-4], the by-laws of the company [p. 5-8], a list of 137 members of the Alexandria Library Company [p. 9-10], and the catalogue itself [all after p. 10]; only known copy, held by the Library of Congress, has loss of all pages after p. 46; both format and text suggest only two pages have been lost, as the last surviving entries are "Appendix" of the magazines and pamphlets in the library's collection; that shortened list reports 1027 titles in all.
Evidently compiled by James Kennedy, the secretary and librarian of the society, who signed the by-laws [p. 8]; he became a bookseller as a result of his association to the library; besides Kennedy, the list of members includes four other Virginia publishers: James Muir. Ferdinando Fairfax, Nathaniel Rounsavell, and Samuel Snowden.
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