J. Bertram Lippincott Gift Fund

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J. Bertram Lippincott Gift Fund

Established in 1891, the J. Bertram Lippincott Gift Fund has supported the acquisition of materials in English literature for over a century.

The Lippincott Family has a distinguished history in Philadelphia, at Penn, and in the publishing world, and many family members have been active supporters of the Penn Library.

Materials purchased through this fund include:

Encyclopoedia of wit, or, Momus's Cabinet of amusement : consisting of a choice collection of bon mots, puns, epigrams, humourous tales in verse, and anecdotes of eminent excentric characters, the whole calculated to enliven the mind and...
Clarissens Schiksale dargestellt in Vier und zwanzig Kupferblättern
Glenarvon : in three volumes.
Poems
Touch-stone of truth : uniting Mr. Swift's late correspondence with the Rev. Doctor Dobbin, and his family : and the detailed account of their subsequent challenge and imposture
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