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Welcome to the Library Company of Philadelphia's Tumblr page! Founded by Ben Franklin in 1731, we are an independent research library specializing in American history and culture from the 17th through the 19th centuries. This page highlights materials from LCP's extensive collection of rare books, manuscripts, broadsides, ephemera, prints, photographs, and works of art.
The Library Company’s copy of A View of the American Slavery Question, an anti-slavery discourse by E.P. Barrows, is bound in a diamond-diaper grained bookcloth. The grain nearly obscures the words stamped on the cover, which reads: “J.S. Taylor Publisher”.
Browse the Library Company’s database of 19th-Century Cloth Bindings to see more!