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Poor Richard Improved: Being An Almanack
by [FRANKLIN, Benjamin]
- Used
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Bryn Mawr,, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
1748. [FRANKLIN, Benjamin]. Poor Richard Improved: Being An Almanack and Ephemeris of the Motions the Sun and Moon...For the Year of Our Lord 1749. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, [1748]. [36]pp. Several in-text woodcut ornaments and vignettes. 12mo. Light soiling and wear, heavier to outer leaves. Very good, untrimmed. In a maroon morocco and cloth slipcase, inner cloth chemise. Miller 441. Evans 6139. Campbell 395. Drake 9705. Hildeburn 1093.A nice copy of a rare POOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK, described by Miller as the first of the POOR RICHARD'S... for which Hall had full responsibility for printing. This copy was among those intended for local distribution, with "A Table for the more ready casting up of Coins, in Pennsylvania" printed on page 35. The section on "How to get RICHES" gives the famous Poor Richard precept: "The Art of getting Riches consists very much in THRIFT." The first POOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK was printed in 1732. Miller locates only fifteen copies of the present rarity.
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Details
- Bookseller
- George S. MacManus Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 77542
- Title
- Poor Richard Improved: Being An Almanack
- Author
- [FRANKLIN, Benjamin]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1748
- Keywords
- FRANKLIN IMP, POOR RICHARD, COLONIAL, ALMANACS, EVANSX, FINE/GEN AM
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George S. MacManus Company
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Bryn Mawr,, Pennsylvania
About George S. MacManus Company
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- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...