Poor Richard's almanack : being the choicest morsels of wit and 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.

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

Standardized Title:

Poor Richard. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Almanacs, American.

Maxims, American.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Baskerville.

Hamilton (Paper)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

79, [1] pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

Mount Vernon : Published in Mount Vernon at the sign of the Peter Pauper Press, [1940?]

Notes:

Illustrated title page.

"This book was set in the Baskerville types and is printed on Hamilton paper" -- Colophon.

In slipcase.

Not in Donnelly & Dobkin.

Local Notes:

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

OCLC:

704482529