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Some notes and reflections upon a letter from Benjamin Franklin to Noble Wimberly Jones, October 7, 1772 / by Malcolm Bell, III.

LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 91
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, correspondent.
Bell, Malcolm, III, 1941-2024, author of notes.
Contributor:
Jones, Noble Wimberly, 1723-1805, correspondent..
Ashantilly Press, printer, book designer, compositor.
Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790--Correspondence.
Franklin, Benjamin.
Jones, Noble Wimberly, 1723-1805--Correspondence.
Jones, Noble Wimberly.
Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--18th century.
Great Britain.
Rice--Georgia.
Rice.
Tallow tree.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Jones, Noble Wimberly, 1723-1805.
British colonies.
America.
Georgia.
Genre:
Personal correspondence.
History.
Private press books (Printing)
Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon Old Style.
Curtis Rag Natural Wove (paper).
Penn Provenance:
Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Bahr, Leonard F. (inscription, 1968) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Haynes, Bill (autograph, 1968) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Physical Description:
10, [2] pages ; 32 cm
Other Title:
Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Noble Wimberly Jones
Place of Publication:
Darien, Ga. : Privately Printed at the Ashantilly Press, 1966.
Notes:
375 copies printed.
Includes facsimile and transcription of the letter.
This book has been designed, set by hand, and printed at the Ashantilly Press ... The text is set in 14 point Caslon Old Style ... the paper is Curtis Rag Natural Wove ..."--Colopon.
"A bibliographical note": page 11.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean- François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has inscription: "To Leonard Bahr with best wishes. Bill Haynes Jan. 29, 1968."
OCLC:
3897341

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