Benjamin Franklin's Apology for a printer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

Contributor:

A. Pomerantz & Co., printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freedom of the press.

Penn Provenance:

Spawn, Willman, 1920-2010 (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

16 pages ; 20 cm

Other Title:

Apology for a printer

Fingerprint:

s.ny e-us s.er ntt. (C) 1953 (A)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Philosophical Hall : Printed by A. Pomerantz & Co., 1953.

Notes:

Reprinted from the Pennsylvania Gazette of June 3-10, 1731.

"Set in Janson types by Lanston Monotype Machine Company, one hundred copies of this book have been printed on Curtis Rag, Natural Laid paper supplied by Curtis Paper Company. It was printed by A. Pomerantz & Company, bound by Willman Spawn and designed by John Anderson."--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy includes copy of Typographica Frankliniana Being a description of items pertaining to the career of B. Franklin, printer. Exhibited at Philosophical Hall, Philadelphia, May 12, 1953.

Culture Class Collection copy is gift of Willman Spawn.

OCLC:

8088353