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[AMERICAN LIBRARIES]. Proceedings of the Dedication of the Building for the Public Library of the City of Boston. Boston: Prepared and Printed by Authority of the City Council, 1858. 8vo. With frontispiece and 5 plates. 194, [2, blank] pp. Publisher's full dark brown cloth, boards stamped in blind, front board stamped in gilt, brown coated endleaves, rebacked to style in modern black cloth, stamped in gilt (some wear, color correction to binding, hinges repaired, edges of endleaves sunned, endleaves wrinkled, text a bit toned). Very good. FIRST EDITION WITH A MANUSCRIPT NOTE STATING, “25 copies only printed" ON FFEP. WITH 2 ALS. TIPPED IN AT FRONT, one by Charles Coffin Jewett (1816-1868), the superintendent to the Boston Public Library, in which he discusses the scarcity of this volume and information about the library building; the other letter by James Lesley Jr. (no dates available), the chief clerk of the War Department and then U. S. Consul for Nice under Abraham Lincoln, presenting this book and Jewett's letter to the “Director of the Mercantile Library." (Both letters with folds, some soiling).