Poor Richard's almanack : being the choicest morsels of wisdom, written during the years of the Almanack's publication / by that well-known savant, Dr. Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia ; with numerous quaint cuts by an unknown hand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, author.

Contributor:

Peter Pauper Press, publisher, printer, book designer.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Proverbs.

Maxims, American.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

77 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Mount Vernon, N.Y. : Peter Pauper Press, [1987?]

Summary:

A collection of Ben Franklin's timeless maxims, rules, and aphorisms.

Notes:

"With numerous quaint cuts by an unknown hand." -- from imprint information.

Available hardcover and softcover, which has page 77 printed inside back cover.

"The present Volume has been prepar'd, printed and publish'd at the Office of the Peter Pauper Press in the town of Mount Vernon, New York State"--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 2013.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy retains dust jacket.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is : "Special copy presented to you with our Season's Greetings & best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year 1987. Blackwell North America, Inc. Lake Oswego, Oregon ; Blackwood, New Jersey." (sheet bound into book). Also typewritten letter laid in from Blackwell.

Cited in:

Donnelly & Dobkin, 420 (page 117)

ISBN:

0880889187

9780880889186

OCLC:

12102783