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Life of Benjamin Franklin : embracing anecdotes illustrative of his character : with embellishments.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection E302.6.F8 P6 1846
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790--Juvenile literature.
- Franklin, Benjamin.
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Statesmen--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Statesmen.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Todres, Susan Molofsky (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 208 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 18 cm
- Other Title:
- Pictorial life of Franklin
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Lindsay and Blakiston, [1846]
- Notes:
- May have been written by H.H. Weld or John Frost.
- "Stereotyped by J. Fagan. Printed by T.K. and P.G. Collins."--T.p. verso.
- Engraved plates by Gilbert & Gihon of Philadelphia, Pa. (most signed: Gilbert & Gihon, Phila.).
- Plates hand-colored.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Susan Molofsky Todres.
- Penn Libraries copy has illegible ms. inscription in blue ink on verso of front free endpaper.
- Penn Libraries copy bound in publisher's brown cloth; left board has blind-stamped border around central gold-stamped illustration (Franklin flying his kite while a boy looks on, both figures seated); right board has blind-stamped border around central blind-stamped ornament; gold-stamped spine.
- Penn Libraries copy: spine mutilated; left board and front free endpaper detached; frontispiece and all through p. 96 detached.
- OCLC:
- 30960218
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