Manual of public libraries, institutions, and societies, in the United States and British provinces of North America

Manual of public libraries, institutions, and societies, in the United States and British provinces of North America. On spine: Manual of American libraries, societies, and institutions. Based partly upon Jewett's Notices of public libraries in the United States, 1851, and partly upon information obtained through circulars issued by the Smithsonian Institution. ''For the information here given relative to Canadian Colleges, etc., we are chiefly indebted to Mr. Thos. Hodgin's Canada Educational Directory for 1857-8.'' (p. 528).