The Library Company Catalogue
Franklin founded the Library Company in 1731 with the members of his Junto, and it was, by the time Franklin & Hall printed this catalogue, probably the most extensive library in colonial British America. The catalogue is arranged by format — folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo — with blank leaves after each section for additions, and it is a portrait of what fifty Philadelphia tradesmen and their successors thought worth reading in the decade Rush was a student.
Franklin was the person most responsible for what was on the shelves. Miller locates over twenty copies; the last at auction were in 1976, 1934, and 1919. The Company still exists, and still holds much of what is listed here.
Charter, Laws, and Catalog of Book of the Library Company of Philadelphia
The catalogue of what was probably the most extensive library in colonial British America, arranged by format — folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo — with blank leaves after each section for additions.6 Franklin was the Company's founder and the person most responsible for its contents. Miller locates over twenty copies; the last at auction were in 1976, 1934, and 1919.
The object and its photographs
Catalog II, Franklin & Hall · Catalog VI, The Library and the Society