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Philadelphia, January 21 : Tuesday the 17th instant, his Excellency Benjamin Franklin, Esq. entered the 81st year of his age.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790--Anniversaries, etc.
- Franklin, Benjamin.
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790--Portraits.
- Wood-engraving, French--18th century.
- Wood-engraving, French.
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Anniversaries.
- Genre:
- Printers' marks -- Gehenna Press -- 1990.
- Wood-engravings -- Emblems, National -- United States.
- Portraits.
- Broadsides -- Massachusetts -- 1990.
- Printers' devices (Printing).
- Penn Provenance:
- Baskin, Hosie (donor) (Kislak Center copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 42 x 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Tuesday the 17th instant, his Excellency Benjamin Franklin, Esq. entered the 81st year of his age
- Place of Publication:
- Northampton, Mass. : Gehenna Press, [approximately 1990]
- Notes:
- Title from first lines.
- Reproduction of 1778 etching "Tiré du Cabinet de M. Le Ray de Chaumont &c." showing oval portrait of Benjamin Franklin above ledge with caption and text on page [1] above title.
- Engraving of American eagle on shield on page [3]; Gehenna Press printer's mark in red at end of colophon on page [4].
- Colophon on page [4]: Fifteen hundred copies were printed at The Gehenna Press in Northampton Massachusetts for the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University. The portrait of Franklin was printed at the Meriden Gravure Company in Meriden Connecticut. The news item was printed originally in the Independent Gazetteer of Philadelphia for January 21, 1786.
- Details celebration of birthday party for Franklin by "company of printers" at Philadelphia's "Bunch of Grapes Tavern, in Third-street."
- Dated because 1990 was the 200th anniversary of Franklin's birth.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Hosea Baskin.
- OCLC:
- 33997789
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