This exhibition celebrates 50 years of collecting by Sid Lapidus, Class of 1959, as well as the 50th reunion of his class. It features 157 important books, pamphlets, and prints exemplary of the collection’s major themes: the origins of the American Revolution, the Revolution itself, the early years of the Republic, the resulting spread of democratic ideas in the Atlantic world, as well as the concomitant effort to abolish the slave trade in both Great Britain and the United States. Presented as gifts at Reunions, those selected are from his more than 2,500 books.

In the main exhibit gallery of Firestone Library, May 28,2009 to January 3, 2010

The exhibition is accompanied by a 200 page catalogue, a sample of which is available here.

Also see notes for items and quotations from them at this link.

A copy of the catalogue may be obtained by writing to rbsc@princeton.edu. (Cost $12 includes postage and handling.)