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Benjamin Franklin & Polly Baker : the history of a literary deception
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Gf .492
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hall, Max.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baker, Polly (Literary hoax).
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Franklin, Benjamin.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 193 p. : port., facsims. ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, [1960]
- Notes:
- The appendix includes the text of the earliest known printing of "The speech of Miss Polly Baker" as issued in the General advertiser in London on Apr. 15, 1747, with the verbal variations found in 9 other selected texts.
- Bibliography: p. 168-184.
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