America's first public library
Subtitle: the provincial library at Charles-Town in Carolina, 1698
By: South Carolina State Library
Contributors: Pennington, Edgar Legare, 1891-1951
Publisher: The Library
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 11
Subjects: Charleston (S.C.). Library
Notes: Cover title.

Consists of two documents: a facsimile of the act passed by the General Assembly of South Carolina confirming establishment of a library at Charles Towne, reprinted from Nicholas Trott's The laws of the Province of South Carolina (1736); and Edgar Lee Pennington's The beginnings of the library in Charles Town, South Carolina, reprinted from Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society (1935).

Includes bibliographical references.