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Rare Revere print found in book at Brown

By Colin A. Young

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  April 12, 2012

While flipping through a collection of old books, Brown University library preservationist Marie Malchodi found, among other things, handwritten notes and a paper cutout of two roosters. But when she got to the back cover of one book, she found a rare piece of history. Tucked inside the back cover of the 19th-century tome “The Modern Practice of Physics,’’ Malchodi found an engraved print by famed silversmith and revolutionary Paul Revere, according to the university.

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