Plain truth: or, Serious considerations on the present state of the city of Philadelphia, and province of Pennsylvania. / By a tradesman of Philadelphia. ; [Sixteen lines in Latin from Sallust].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, author.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 5949.

Standardized Title:

Plain truth

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Pennsylvania.

History.

Pennsylvania--Politics and government--To 1775.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (22 pages, 2 unnumbered pages)

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia]: [Printed [by Benjamin Franklin], in the year MDCCXLVII. [1747]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Attributed to Benjamin Franklin by Miller, who identifies him as the printer.

This printing is primarily a reimpression of the standing type of the first edition (Evans 5948). Leaf C4, blank in the first impression, here contains an English translation of the Latin excerpt from Sallust quoted on the title page, and the last line of text on pages 3 has been corrected; compare Miller.

Advertised in the Pennsylvania gazette, Dec. 3, 1747, seventeen days after the appearance of the first impression; compare Miller.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 5949).

Cited in:

Evans 5949

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 1010a

Miller, C.W. Franklin, 417

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