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PJ.767.120
10 Sep 1767:33 (1292)
Proposals, for opening on Monday the 14th of September, a
new circulating library, by Lewis Nicola, in Second Street,
between Race and Vine Streets, who, besides between two and
three hundred volumes of history, poetry, plays, voyages,
&c. has received by the Ellis, Capt. Egdon, from London,
about one hundred volumes of new books . . .
Subscribers to deposit three pounds, and pay three dollars
a year, each subscriber to receive a catalogue, to be
enlarged as new books will be received. Non subscribers to
deposit the value of the book taken, and pay six pence per
week. The library to be open every day in the week except
Sundays. No person on any account to take more than one
volume at a time.
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