Father Abraham's speech to a great number of people, at a vendue of merchant-goods : introduced to the public by Poor Richard, a famous Pennsylvania conjurer and almanack-maker, in answer to the following questions : Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times? Won't these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we ever be able to pay them? What would you advise us to do? : to which are added, several curious pieces of writing.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 12591.

Standardized Title:

Way to wealth

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Success.

Maxims.

Physical Description:

24 pages

6x9 in.

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

Dedham [Mass.] : Printed by H. Mann, for Wm. Tileston Clapp, Boston, 1807.

Notes:

For a listing of titles in each box consult American bibliography : a preliminary checklist for 1801-1819 / compiled by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.

"Father Abraham's speech" signed: Richard Saunders.

First published in Poor Richard's almanac for 1758; separately issued in 1760 under title "Father Abraham's speech", and frequently reprinted under title "The way to wealth."

Microopaque. Worcester, Mass. : American Antiquarian Society, 1968. 1 microopaque ; 23 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 12591).

Cited in:

Shaw & Shoemaker, 12591.

OCLC:

15439419