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Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund
Established in 1977 by Julia B. Leisenring (College for Women 1970), this fund supports acquisitions for the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Pennsylvania.
The fund has enabled the Library to acquire a number of fascinating works including:
Richard Bradley, A Complete Body of Husbandry: Collected from the Practice and Experience of the Most Considerable Farmers in Britain, 1727.
Marianne-Agnes Pillement Fauques, L'histoire de Madame la Marquise de Pompadour, 1759.
Lorenzo de' Medici, Poesie del Magnifico Lorenzo de' Medici, 1791.
For faculty, students, and visiting scholars, this fund supports collection development that provides the basis for new understanding of the past.
Marianne-Agnes Pillement Fauques, L'histoire de Madame la Marquise de Pompadour, 1759.
Lorenzo de' Medici, Poesie del Magnifico Lorenzo de' Medici, 1791.
Materials purchased through this fund include:
- Inconstant Moon : poems to the Moon
- History of Dr. Faustus : shewing his wicked life and horrid death, and how he sold himself to the devil, to have power for 24 years to do what he pleased, also many strange things done by him with the assistance of Mephostophiles : with an account how the
- Tragical history of Jane Arnold, commonly called Crazy Jane, and Mr. Henry Percival : giving an account of their birth, parentage, courtship, and melancholy end.
- Models of conversation for persons of polite education
- Nubilia in search of a husband : including sketches of modern society, and interspersed with moral and literary disquisitions.
- See additional titles purchased through this fund
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