Note 21 — PART I. AMERICANA IN LIBRARIES AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES.
Reading edition
This collection was offered to Congress for purchase through Edward Everett in December, 1827. The printed list, with nearly a hundred entries for manuscripts and three hundred and eighty-nine for printed books, covering the years 1506-1825, was printed as Document 37 of the 1st session of the 20th Congress. The sale was not effected. Rich had been able to gather the books at moderate cost because of the troubled political state of the peninsula. Trübner, Bibliographical Guide, p. xv.